Virginia Abbott and Ilze Bebris
Virginia Abbott and Ilze Bebris
July 23 - August 2
Atists' Talk August 3 @ noon
Longing for connection and permanence is a site-specific installation in which Virginia Abbott and Ilze Bebris will work in the gallery, employing 10,000 coffee stir sticks and hot glue to create a sculptural structure over the course of five days. The final piece will depend on the ideas, energy, dexterity and technical ability of the artists as they create the work. The only promise the artists have made to themselves is that they will allow the work to become something tenuous, undermining their expectations of solidity and the permanence of built structures. This is in direct contradiction to the carefully planned methods that they usually use in their practice. The completed project will likely look like a fragile web - an improvised construction which has grown into fragile extensions, reaching towards the ceiling or the wall, bending, leaning towards collapse, still under construction.