Nuclear Family
Tuesday, Oct 18, 20167 PM — Thursday, Dec 1, 20169 PMEDT
| 207 Kosciuszko Street, 3rd floor
New York, NY, USRelated
NUCLEAR FAMILY
Chanel von Habsburg-Lothringen
Thing Thing
October 18 - December 1 2016
Opening reception October 18, 7 - 9 PM
Please join 1.5 Rooms for the opening of our first show, Nuclear Family, featuring new, site-specific works by Chanel von Habsburg-Lothringen and the design manufacturing studio Thing Thing. Wrought from the detritus of post-war American industry and the myth of a singular family unit, the show mines the fertile garbage we’ve inherited.
Chanel von Habsburg-Lothringen deconstructs generational relationships, presented in this exhibtion as large scale prints on vinyl banners that are both grotesque and commemorative. Sourcing from the landscape of Detroit, Thing Thing harvests post-consumer plastic waste and hand-recycles it into a unique substrate, creating dystopic yet exuberant objects inspired by Enzo Mari’s proto-DIY “Autoprogettazzione” furniture.
Sited in a residential apartment, Nuclear Family plays off the space itself -- unsettling the home with uncanny visions of the life of the interior.
The show runs through December 1, open hours Saturday 1-5pm.
CHANEL VON HABSBURG-LOTHRINGEN (b. 1989, Detroit, MI) holds an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in Social Science and History of Art from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Her previous exhibitions include: Figure as Form, LTD Gallery Hollywood Hills Home, Los Angeles, TRUNK SHOW 2, gallery1993, Los Angeles (solo), NADA New York, Boyfriends, Chicago (solo), Flat Foldability, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, Female Body Inspector, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles; Meanwhile in Lonesome Valley, Loudhailer, Los Angeles, Detroit Independent Film Festival, and Royal Albert Hall. She is the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA), Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.
THING THING is a manufacturing studio practicing in Detroit. Established in 2012, Thing Thing designs processes to work intuitively with materials and methods usually reserved for industrial production. Thing Thing is Simon Anton, Eiji Jimbo, Rachel Mulder and Thom Moran. Previous exhibitions include: The Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Shenzhen, China, Green Space, Detroit, Ready-To-Hand, Present-At-Hand, CVA Gallery Toledo, Mobile Homestead Artist-in-Residence, MOCAD Detroit, and Common Ground, 13th International Bienniale of Architecture, Venice.
1.5 Rooms, located at 207 Kosciuszko Street, 3rd floor, Brooklyn, is a new, cross-disciplinary think tank and exhibition space. Curated by Chelsea Culprit, Ben Fochs, Jaffer Kolb, Colleen Tuite, and Ian Quate--a collective of artists, architects, and landscape architects--1.5 Rooms is designed to serve as a catalyst between the art and architecture communities, and to both reflect and instigate new directions for the two fields.
Nuclear Family is the first of four exhibitions in the series Cross-Sections: Four Views of Emerging Artists and Architects, generously supported by the Graham Foundation.
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