CONOR MCGRADY FEATURED IN
IK-00: The spaces of confinement
IK-00: The spaces of confinement
JUNE 7 – AUGUST 24, 2014
Organized by the V-A-C Foundation, this group exhibition exploring architectural spaces of confinement at Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, ITALY coincides with the Venice Architecture Biennale.
“Prisons, asylums and other correctional facilities are in constant evolution, ideologically, structurally and architecturally, encapsulating whole narrative structures of violence and resistance. How is a space of confinement produced? How can it be witnessed? In what way can it can be documented and visualised? The spatial syntax of a prison is a distorted mixture of fantasy and reality. The artists in the exhibition reflect on spaces of constraint, confinement, and containment. The functional aspects of these spaces are beyond the visible; they are distanced both spatially and temporally from the fluid existence of those on the outside. However, these places of enclosure do not exist separately from the everyday. Their construction engenders a complex set of psychological patterns that connect to the human condition of all of us.”
Participating artists: Rossella Biscotti, Sam Durant, Harun Farocki, Valentin Fetisov, Ashley Hunt, Rebecca Lazier, Conor McGrady, Mikhail Nesterov, Markus Schinwald, Jonas Staal, David Ter-Oganyan, Michael Tolmachev, Ines & Eyal Weizman, Donovan Wylie, Urban Fauna Lab, Arseniy Zhilyaev