Sixty Inches From Center
"Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden" Installation by Faheem Majeed at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 2012.
These photos were taken as documentation by The Chicago Arts Archive, a project of Sixty Inches From Center NFP. It will accompany an interview with Faheem Majeed, the creator of the work.
For more on Chicago Art, visit www.sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive
Artist Statement:
"Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden" is a part of an ongoing series of work that utilizes cedar wood panels to host a variety of interventions. Based on the 1930’s New Bauhaus designed wood paneling of the South Side Community Art Center’s Margaret Burroughs Gallery, these wood panels will also serve as a didactic tool that will physically record the artists and community members that utilize them. Sometimes installed as walls, tables, or floors, every intervention will inevitably leave marks that will create a patina of usage.
As a part of the “Hairy Blob of History” exhibition, these wood panels were used to create a 10’ x 10’ table and a 30’ wall. For the purposes of this “intervention”, I have positioned ephemera and other short life objects from the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC). These are found objects that have not, and perhaps never would have been, perceived as collection or archive appropriate. By being randomly set aside over a period of time, they have formed their own “collection”. Although ephemeral in their original life, they currently serve a new purpose, gaining importance from the story they tell in their diverse multitude…now “almost collectible”.
"Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden" Installation by Faheem Majeed at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 2012.
These photos were taken as documentation by The Chicago Arts Archive, a project of Sixty Inches From Center NFP. It will accompany an interview with Faheem Majeed, the creator of the work.
For more on Chicago Art, visit www.sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/archive
Artist Statement:
"Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden" is a part of an ongoing series of work that utilizes cedar wood panels to host a variety of interventions. Based on the 1930’s New Bauhaus designed wood paneling of the South Side Community Art Center’s Margaret Burroughs Gallery, these wood panels will also serve as a didactic tool that will physically record the artists and community members that utilize them. Sometimes installed as walls, tables, or floors, every intervention will inevitably leave marks that will create a patina of usage.
As a part of the “Hairy Blob of History” exhibition, these wood panels were used to create a 10’ x 10’ table and a 30’ wall. For the purposes of this “intervention”, I have positioned ephemera and other short life objects from the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC). These are found objects that have not, and perhaps never would have been, perceived as collection or archive appropriate. By being randomly set aside over a period of time, they have formed their own “collection”. Although ephemeral in their original life, they currently serve a new purpose, gaining importance from the story they tell in their diverse multitude…now “almost collectible”.