Stephanie Syjuco: Particulate Matter (Things, Thingys, Thingies) and Dexter Sinister: The Plastic Arts
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, September 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 23rd
Stephanie Syjuco’s handmade versions of objects designed by users of the free 3-D modeling program Google SketchUp exist somewhere between the bootleg, the copy and the translation. Modeled from online designs that seem to lack value or utility, Syjuco’s refashioned versions explore the handmade in the digital-era of design, uniqueness found even within the copy, and collaboration’s relationship to outsourcing, as well as labor, authorship and value.
Diffusing the lines between form and content in graphic design, Dexter Sinister creates presentations and publications that collapse the distinctions between editing, design, production and distribution. Designed as a walk-in-caption and typeset in their newly devised Meta-the-difference-between-the-two-font. font, this exhibition offers a series of frames with which to consider the usual channels of material, subject matter and set-up in exhibition displays.
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