Rearrangements: Sculpture/Performance/Photography
Curated by Katy McCormick
Lynda Gammon & Sonya Hanney and Adam Dade

January 6 - February 3, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday January 6, 2 to 5 PM

Exhibition tour with curator Katy McCormick Saturday, January 20th



Image: Lynda Gammon, Salvaged 8, 2006, photographs and mixed media



Image: Sonya Hanney and Adam Dade, Stacked Hotel Room No. 9 (Cae Mor Hotel, Llandudno, Wales), 2002, c print

Rearrangements: Sculpture/Performance/Photography includes works by the collaborative UK duo Adam Dade and Sonya
Hanney and Canadian Lynda Gammon. These artists explore notions of sculpture, space, and performance vis-à-vis
the photographic image from two different perspectives. In her Salvaged series Gammon composes with a photographic
archive of interior spaces. Interweaving construction detritus with photographs, she arranges fragments in an improvisational
manner to create miniature architectural spaces. Dade and Hanney compose their Stacked Hotel Rooms in
real time, making video recordings of their process of reconfiguring the domestic architecture of hotel rooms. Once
consolidated, these constructions are photographed and subsequently dissembled, then restored to their original state —
all in the course of one night’s stay. Through private performances involving the artists’ interaction with materials, space,
and the photographic record, these works coaelece around the process of construction. Anti-monumental in scope and
scale and without function, they suggest the activity of building, reframing, and transformation.
- Katy McCormick

Brief Artist Statements
Adam Dade + Sonya Hanney
“The hotel works came about as something of an uneasy response to the behaviour of an over zealous maid. Her actions drew our
attention to the customary functions at work within the space and to our temporary appropriation of it. Made conscious of the things
we do that don’t need doing and the things we don’t do that do need doing. The stacks themselves might be considered as something
of a droll attempt to quantify what an everyday sculpture might be. The photographs document the monumental peak of the work,
and were originally intended for the project’s presentation in the form of postcards.”

Lynda Gammon
“The two works in this exhibition, are part of an ongoing series of sculptural assemblages called Salvaged. Interweaving both new
and recycled photographs from my ever-growing archive of interior spaces with construction site detritus, I construct wall mounted
architectural models. Photographs are glued next to one another, layered one on another, folded, refolded, taped and glued together.
Combined with retrieved construction site and household refuse, teetering on the edge between representation and abstraction, a
fragile assemblage is barnacled to the wall. Existing only for the duration of the exhibition this fragile assemblage is broken apart in the
process of removal, its parts returning to the archive as material for future works within the Salvaged series.”


EXHIBITION BROCHURE AND ESSAY BY KATY MCCORMICK