Single Family Home For Sale
July 27th - Sept 8th 2018
Single Family Home For Sale: Jeanie Riddle, Dimitri Velasquez
TAP is proud to present a two-person exhibition; Jeanie Riddle and Dimitri Velasquez.
Jeanie Riddle creates minimalist abstract paintings, sculptures and installations. Dimitri Velasquez writes personal quasi-fictional reviews of commercial products and human interactions assisted by pop culture and time-based references on Instagram.
From a superficial standpoint, this collaboration may not seem apparent. Yet, scratching the surface reveals that both artists in their own language speak about memory and the ever-changing stories we tell ourselves to make sense of time passing and experiences lived. Disrupting the formalism of painting, Jeanie Riddle explores the potential offered by installation-making, telling stories of distant pasts through the use of objects reminiscent of domestic situations. Dimitri Velasquez in a tongue-in-cheek writing style documents ordinary occurrences in a concise and economical way as if fearing -and rightfully so- memories and thoughts will be distorted, morphed or obliterated altogether.
In Single Family Home For Sale, the two artists think about the site where TAP is located as exactly what the architectural space was meant for, a garage. A place where paintings will collapse with objects signifiers and texts, rendering a narrative of packing and unpacking memories, where the shadows of the past are present and the objects infused with intimate reminders of who we gave the tools to better understand where are we headed to.
Thanks to Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran for their collaboration.
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