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Phillips Gallery: Home for an Hour Staff Pick
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Although art installation is not the usual forte for Phillips Gallery, an assemblage of wall text, photography, and stacks of books can currently be found in the Phillips basement Dibble Gallery. It's the product of an art experiment of the most elaborate sort, one that questions and provokes in an almost existential way. The project is titled Home for an Hour, and it combines the creative energies of photographer Sarah Martin and writer Adam Moser. The project involves several key ingredients: a single apartment in a single building and "seven couples, one key, one day, one hour at a time," Moser writes. Each of the consecutive seven couples is invited into unit No. 5 of the apartment block, Martin takes their photo, and the door is shut—the last anyone knows of the happenings inside, at least for an hour. Outside, Moser frantically writes a mock dialogue based on what he imagines could be happening inside. There's "no pressure to perform, wondering what the guy outside in the fur coat will write about them," Moser writes. After the hour, Martin takes a parting shot of the couple, and documents "evidence" of their one-hour occupancy, such as products used or items consumed. What Moser writes and what actually happened in the apartment is the difference between what the mind is told to believe and the truth that will never be known—sometimes based on physical attributes of the couples like age, race, clothing style or apparent social position. Preconception and expectation has an undeniable impact on the written record, when the reality is likely something entirely different. (Ehren Clark)
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Phillips Gallery
- 444 East 200 South, Salt Lake City SLC-Downtown Utah 84111
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801-364-8284
- www.phillips-gallery.com…
