collaborative exhibition with artist, alejandro t. acierto.
The exhibition was situated in the first colonized area of the Coast Salish people in Seattle, Washington. For us, the gallery surface functioned as a historical bridge, connecting the camera, the shower, and the archive. This work transformed the gallery into a layered site of remembrance and exposure. We constructed a pinhole camera from the space itself to document both the interior and exterior of the site, tiled the north and south walls, and produced a single exposure on a set of 16×24 light-sensitive shower tiles (see 28 minutes, 3:30 p.m.). The photograph reflects our desire to collapse these spaces into a single continuous image. Our work and research engage in a dialogue within non-linear sites of photographic space, where colonization and its contemporary successors are archived in architecture and reconstitute the conditions of state capture.Together, we stay with and stage the architectures that remain.
Pictured from top to bottom [all images have an amber cast from the photo-sensitive lighting installed for the pinhole exposure and processing that happened on-site and during the run of the exhibition]:
installation [overall] view at Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
production image of artists developing exposure tests in the gallery
[left: Dan Paz, right: alejandro t. acierto
Untitled (south wall)
4.25in white ceramic tile, grout, cement board, caulk
[a tiled, shower wall, with amber-colored light]
State - Issue Bath Towel with Untitled (south wall)
handmade porcelain, glaze embroidery thread; steel rack by Julia Heineccius
28 minutes, 3:30 pm
16in x 24in
4.25in white ceramic tile, liquid light, plywood
[an exposure of the exterior of the building]
.575 mm diameter; pinhole, black paint, curtain, light
[west-facing storefront window with glass painted black, a 0.575 mm hole was carved out as the lens. Dark drapes hang at either edge of window.]
State-Issue Washcloth 2 [bottom right]
handmade porcelain tiles, glaze
State - Issue Washcloth 1
12in x 12in
handmade porcelain, glaze, embroidery thread
Untitled (north wall) [back]
4.25in white ceramic tile, grout, cement board, caulk;
[front, left] Study table 2 by alejandro t. acierto; steel, archival e-flute corrugated board, ink on vellum, PH-balanced