Opens Tomorrow Morning

 

“ Beyond the entrance to the gallery there is a yellow door. Beyond the door, reality gives way to a constructed fiction, the simulacrum. “

 

Opens Tomorrow Morning is an immersive conceptual installation by Mexican artist Pablo Delgado. Howard Griffin gallery was constructed that plays host to a fictional exhibition, simulacrum. Jean Baudrillard defines simulacrum as a distorted simulation of reality, presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that everything around us is real. http://howardgriffingallery.com

 

In this exhibition the gallery space was turned into a theatrical scene where Delgado explored the idea of working process as the exhibition exists in endless state of completion. Opens Tomorrow Morning presents the scene of the night before the installation is complete. The exhibition itself is the activity of making the exhibition.

 

Interestingly, the exhibition puts question to the interconnection of the role of the artist, the gallery space, and the action of the viewer. The viewer is an active participant, whose presence and actions complete the work. Delgado created hidden stories, the interplay between objects and shadows. He worked with objects and discarded materials, arranging them into piles of random-look installation. By projecting shadows of the objects in the arbitrary set-up scene, the viewer’s exploration and action is a part of the work to reveal the stories behind those objects. Some installations are small and disguise in their surroundings. Any person experiences the hidden stories differently as we individually define reality and illusion from different angles. What we see may not be what is turn out to be.

 

As well as the context of the exhibition, I am interested in how the artist turns his outdoor practice, his usual outdoor street scenes, into the indoor while retaining the essence of his artworks. The relationship between his work in public and passing pedestrian was turned into another experience of his work and gallery audience.