Friday, August 28, 7:00-9:00pm
Reception – Simon Starling: Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird)
Free admission for Bass Museum members
$10 for non-members
Simon Starling:
Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA
(House for a Songbird)
Henri and Flore Lesieur Pavilion
This exhibition is comprised of one large-scale installation and two photographs. Conceptual artist Simon Starling (b. 1967 Epsom, England) explores the relationships between craft, material, technique, social history, association and memory.
Starling’s Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird), is comprised of two scale models of prefabricated single-family houses that are pinned to the ceiling by tree branches. They are interpretations of existing homes located outside San Juan, Puerto Rico. Built in the 1960s, these houses are part of a development financed by the New York-based Rockefeller Foundation. The recreation of this unique and plagued housing project brings to light the complexities of realizing utopian aspirations in the modern world.