RE-SOURCE
EXHIBITION AT STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
RE-SOURCE
STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Stacks of used plywood, steel studs and pipes, obsolete electronics, broken heaters, and unidentified cables. Boxes with dusty newsprints and stationary, excess light bulbs and fluorescent tube lights, tripod stands, wheels, vinyl banners, carpets, tarps, and sandbags. Leftover paint, glue and epoxy, plastic bags full of nails, screws, hinges and L-brackets, buckets of cleaning supplies, and more.
Throughout the years – decades even – Storefront for Art and Architecture has accumulated these and many other objects, tools, materials, and equipment. They took root over time, filling every drawer and corner, and growing exponentially with the perhaps unrealistic expectation that they would be reused in upcoming projects.
Now, as a global pandemic demands us all to realign our goals and reimagine our near- and long-term futures, the need for processes of renewal is clear. At Storefront, we take this opportunity to shed old ways of doing and being, and to affirm the need to embrace methods that are ever more thoughtful, responsible, and empathetic.
Re-Source, Storefront’s first in-person exhibition since the lockdown, is the beginning of what’s to come. Drawing upon our material and social resources, the exhibition invites 26 architects and designers who have worked with Storefront in its recent history to create new works with leftover and surplus items from our office, gallery, and storage spaces. Through this process, we seek to give new life to the things we hold, and to open up space that is crucial for new ways of working, making, and thinking.
At a time when anxiety and opportunity collide, Re-Source also doubles as a fundraising initiative to replace crucial financial resources lost due to the cancelation of Storefront’s annual Spring Benefit. The exhibition is presented as part of our interim program, On Maintenance, which introduces an interjection and a moment of pause in our previously scheduled programming to address the many aspects of maintenance, exploring what it means to both sustain and rehaul our spaces, our social and political systems, and our bodies and minds.
RE-SOURCE INCLUDES WORKS BY:
Abruzzo Bodziak Architects
Agency—Agency / Tei Carpenter
Anthony Titus Studio
Atelier Office
Bryony Roberts Studio
BÜRO KORAY DUMAN
Charlap Hyman & Herrero
Chen Chen & Kai Williams
Daisy Ames / Studio Ames
Farzin Lotfi-Jam / Farzin Farzin
FIERRO
GRT Architects
it’s not corporate architecture
Lydia Xynogala / ALOS
MAIO
New Affiliates
NO ARCHITECTURE
Office III / Sean Canty + Ryan Golenberg + Stephanie Lin
PARA Project / Jon Lott
PARC Office
Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio
Peterson Rich Office
PRODUCTORA
Reddymade
Studio Cadena
Talbot & Yoon + TUNA
ECHO by FIERRO
Materials: filament for 3D printing, newspaper pamphlets of old exhibitions, paint, socket, lightbulb.
FIERRO creates an artifact with reused and recycled materials along with artificial and natural light. ECHO emerges as a physical representation of these concepts, which are not proportionally related. When assembled as a totem, what could seem to increase in size results in a decrease of light, alluding to the tendency of stringing together concepts that do not always have a predictable result. The pieces operate as a singular element, but when separated they take on different uses such as a basket, pendant lamps, decorative elements, supports for hats, or an entire landscape. ECHO builds on the idea of resource as a constant movement and transformation of materials in general, but of objects in particular.
