A small room was built in front of the entrance to the gallery; the proportions of the room mimicked the specific architectural dimensions of the front half of the gallery space. The visitors could choose to either enter the false room through its own door, or walk around the space. The room was painted an institutional brown and the walls and three Montreal youths were invited to axe the walls with instructions to disrupt the surface of the walls without breaking through completely. A pink bathrobe was found and hung up inside the door. Between the ‘real’ gallery and the inner chamber lay fragments from the process and the lights from inside the room cast shadows on the gallery walls.
Dare Dare Gallery, Montreal
2001