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For the inaugural exhibition in Locust Projects’ new home, Cuban-American artist Rafael Domenech has envisioned “assembling beneath a desire for sabotage,” a massive architectural environment that creates a pavilion-like setting activated by a sequence of events. Invited to take over Locust Projects new space in Little River prior to build-out of galleries, the project builds on the artist’s recent pavilion for the 58th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.
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Domenech’s architectural intervention at Locust Projects is intended to redefine the exhibition experience as an active machine for production and dialogue rather than a repository space for passive viewing. For “Assembling”, Domenech repurposes imagery from his Miami archive alongside a composite of texts to create a space that allows for affordance – a recognition of an architectural space in a state of transformation. Attendees can walk through the free flowing rooms, and layer their own experiences and ideas by participating in various activations, including a Community Celebration on March 3.
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The activations, conceived as a series of “chapters” informed by Domenech’s history of working with artist’s books and experimental publishing formats, will punctuate the run of the show, evolving in and through the community’s active participation.