Dwelling: 10th Anniversary Show (Part II)

Inside Pages The word ‘dwelling’ evokes deep, intuitive associations of intimacy, consolation and belonging. These associations captivate us despite the unpropitious circumstances that often threaten our homes and territories of allegiance. The 12 artists presented in Part I of Dwelling – the 10th-anniversary exhibition of Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke – engaged with the rubric of dwelling in a variety of register, including habitation, landscape, the nation-state, the diary as journey, and the materiality of site and locale. 

The 12 artists shown in Dwelling Part II also address themselves to diverse concerns, ranging from interiority to the panoramic. There are fantasia and allegory here, and also the trompe l’oeil seascape, the archive and the sketchbook as familiar yet uncanny repositories of sensation, emotion and memory. There is the evocation of imaginary cities; there is an invocation of the wall as membrane or skin, and of the memorial or monument as anchor of identity. We encounter the group here as safety net and harness; we encounter, also, the nurturing presence of family. Dwelling convenes the works and celebrates the practices of 24 artists who the gallery represents; or who are its long-term friends and collaborators. These artists incarnate the life of the gallery, the web of relationships and conversations that sustains its activity.