COLLECTION NAME:
Art and Art History Student Work
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Image Record ID:
aahi0021699
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Work Title (display):
Yours, Ours, Mine
Image Title:
detail view of installation space
Work Description:
In this ongoing project, I explore how curtains demarcate a specific point in physical space that separates the two theoretical realms of private and public. In a series of performative gestures, curtains are installed in different abandoned locations. A division between private and public narratives no longer exists within these spaces, yet they still hold the remnants of personal human experience within them. Through decay and vitiation, the external environment has begun to take over the interior. By installing curtains within these overlooked sites, the separation between public and private is temporarily restored. // Artist statement: The boundary between public and private is socially and politically maintained through the regulation of behavior. This boundary weaponizes shame and abjection, as tools of a surveillance culture, to silence divergent narratives and maintain dominant social frameworks. My work explores this boundary between private and public, as I question the value of this delineation, and who benefits from its construction. I find thin places where the border between these two spheres is less clearly defined such as a curtain, or a ciphered letter. Thin places demarcate a specific point in physical space that separates the theoretical realms of the intimate and the communal. // These veils can draw lines between bedroom and sidewalk, diary and newspaper. They quickly and flexibly remove the possibility of surveillance, making space for deviancy and a reprise from self-policing. These are locations that pique people’s curiosity as forbidden information, the secrets of the intimate, is so easily accessed. With a simple application of force, a cipher can be decoded, a curtain can be pulled aside. By pitting people’s voyeuristic desire to peek into someone else’s intimate information against their expectations of how they are supposed to occupy public space, I point to an invisible, regulatory barrier.
Work Dates (display):
2019
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Delaney Gardner-Sweeney (American, born 1997)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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false
Work Creator notes (display):
Thesis not found on file (last checked: 02/06/2024)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
BFA 2020, Art and Art History
Work Subject:
surveillance
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surveillance
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Work Subject:
culture
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culture
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Work Subject:
human behavior
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human behavior
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Work Subject:
houses
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houses
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Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
curtains and abandoned windows
Work Measurements (display):
dimensions variable
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado Art Museum
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© Delaney Gardner-Sweeney
Work Rights (display):
© Delaney Gardner-Sweeney
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection:
Art and Art History Student Work Archive
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