A Gallery that is:
Open Caring Complex Home Comforting
Loving Friendly Experimental Inviting Bustling
Loving Friendly Experimental Inviting Bustling
Hold a Spce for Me
Collaborator: Vedika Modi
Role: Concept Development, Project Management, Curator, Storyteller
I 2022
An aspiration for an unconventional gallery emerges in the form of this project, as it transforms homes into venues for showcasing experimental endeavors. While traditional galleries often remain empty spaces, "Hold a Space for Me" teems with the tangible textures of daily life, extending a warm invitation to viewers to immerse themselves in the intricate realm of coexistence with objects.
Hold a Space for Me is the belief in you and me, in our intimacy, our unfamiliarity, our awkwardness and in our passion. Our objects are nothing if not born from the community and contexts that fuel our creative spirit. We invite you into our homes sacred places in which we dream, create and commune.
Hold a Space for Me is the belief in you and me, in our intimacy, our unfamiliarity, our awkwardness and in our passion. Our objects are nothing if not born from the community and contexts that fuel our creative spirit. We invite you into our homes sacred places in which we dream, create and commune.
The Designers
June Lim
Carmen Oldham
Shashwath Santosh
Krithi Nalla
Thomas Yang
Ritika Kedia
Makiah Roberts
Yu Quihong
Exhibited Work
Inspired by the Spanish tradition of Sobre Mesa, the first show embodied the limbo between a shared meal and the day’s rest. Rooted in the act of coming and going and the casualness of the moment, people were invited to converse, connect, and rejoice throughout the entire afternoon.
“El recuerdo es el reunir a la familia, que para mí ha sido algo muy importante no un recuerdo en especial sino en realidad todos.”
“The memory is of reuniting the family, which for me has been something extremely important. I don’t have a specific memory that is special, in reality they all are.”
The essence of a shared meal by Maria de la Concepción Ibañez Martin (Loving Grandmother)
Out Reach
Slowly, through friends and friends of friends we began spreading the news of the opening to our show.
Connections and friendships built to last through a common love for people, objects and being at home.
A Viewer’s Journey
Questions we ask ourselves:
Can a gallery be warm?
In what contexts and environments does the work feel most seen?
What makes a good conversation great?
Can a gallery be complicated, textured and lived in?
Designing Interactions:
The transformation of the environment in which art and design are experienced creates opportunities for fresh, unfamiliar, and innovative interactions with the artworks.
A Viewer’s Journey
Plan
Show Timeline
Curatorial Plan & Specifications
Special thanks to:
Collaborator & Co-Curator ; Vedika Modi
Photographer ; Shaina Suir
With gratitude to the wonderful designers that trusted us with their projects:
Ritika Kedia, Edible To-Do Lists
Thomas Yang, Ceramic Molds
Shashwath Santosh, Quantum Brownies
Krithi Nalla, Quantum Brownies
Yu Quihong, Film Photographs
June Lim, A Picnic Basket for Two, [A gift for you] ...for me
Carmen Oldham, Investigations of body, memory and transformation through beeswax
Makiah Roberts, A Picnic Basket for Two
Collaborator & Co-Curator ; Vedika Modi
Photographer ; Shaina Suir
With gratitude to the wonderful designers that trusted us with their projects:
Ritika Kedia, Edible To-Do Lists
Thomas Yang, Ceramic Molds
Shashwath Santosh, Quantum Brownies
Krithi Nalla, Quantum Brownies
Yu Quihong, Film Photographs
June Lim, A Picnic Basket for Two, [A gift for you] ...for me
Carmen Oldham, Investigations of body, memory and transformation through beeswax
Makiah Roberts, A Picnic Basket for Two
References:
Bachelard, Gaston, and Richard Kearney. The poetics of space. New York, N.Y: Penguin Books, 2014.
Bowles, Meg, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers, Padma Lakshmi, and Chenjerai Kumanyika. How to tell A story: The essential guide to memorable storytelling from the moth. New York: Crown, 2023.
O’Doherty, Brian, and Thomas McEvilley. Inside the White Cube: The ideology of the gallery space. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California Press, 2000.
Bachelard, Gaston, and Richard Kearney. The poetics of space. New York, N.Y: Penguin Books, 2014.
Bowles, Meg, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers, Padma Lakshmi, and Chenjerai Kumanyika. How to tell A story: The essential guide to memorable storytelling from the moth. New York: Crown, 2023.
O’Doherty, Brian, and Thomas McEvilley. Inside the White Cube: The ideology of the gallery space. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California Press, 2000.