If you get the chance you must check out the Ought Apartment installation in the Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver artist Reece Terris has built a 60-foot architectural installation in the heart of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Focusing on the evolution of domestic space in Vancouver over the last six decades, Ought Apartment is an “apartment tower” with six full-sized residences stacked on top of each other, each dedicated to a decade of décor between 1950 and 2000.
Every piece of cabinetry, tile work, bathroom fixtures, linoleum floors, wallpaper, appliances, lamps, furniture and a myriad of other domestic artifacts were carefully removed from residences slated for demolition or renovation for reconfiguration in Terris’s sculpture. The artist salvages these rapidly vanishing domestic objects to emphasize their cultural value, as well as the ongoing cycles of human consumption.
The work will be on display until September 20, 2009, so you still have a chance to drool over this amazing piece of work.
By Melanie Carlson
