Visual Guide to a House Museum
House museums can be defined as either: a.) a live-in museum, or b.) a house on display to visitors. Balancing the direction of attention between objects of interest and the environment they inhabit is accomplished by inscribing ‘frames’ to put things in their places. However, the continual need for remodeling and repair at these sites illustrates how the effort required to sustain a visitor’s experience is an ongoing and open-ended process. Rather than attempting to control construction, Visual Guide proposes an alternative notion of structural propriety–typically connoting firmness and stability–that welcomes decomposition, deformation and failure as moments in a continuum of dynamic behavior.
Wooster Street Gallery, New York City, NYC, Spring 2019, Photographs: Erik Tsurumaki