



"Indefinite Leave to Remain":
Richard Frater
Patrick Lundberg
Susie Thomas
ST Paul Street Gallery
Level 1 WM Building
40 St Paul Street
School of Art and Design
Auckland University of Technology
Please join us for a viewing, Thurs 21 January, 5:30pm.
Until 12 February
'The corridor and foyer surrounding ST Paul St Gallery are by nature functional, charismatic even, in their low ambient industrial aesthetic, yet sit synonymously indivisible to the Gallery space.
As a springboard for individual exhibitors these outside-of-the-gallery-sites present a point of departure for artwork to examine its own polemical relationship to the space. As a collective catalyst these passageways, or suggestions of space, are survival compounds with their very own set of conditions- a precarious gesture in the tradition of framing.
Thus spaces, literally corridors and foyers, evoke this divergence between art works that unearth a proto-gallery environment and others that chime alongside the functional sensibility of the space.
Both employ the gestural status of the exhibition space as an entry point, the first activating and encompassing the entire context without discomfort, as a trajectory of the artists etiolated role. The latter a conscious appreciation of a more inward and intimate relationship to space.
Oscillating then between these viewpoints, work seeks to dissolve the passageway and foyer as an alternative to the gallery space and open up practices to an interplay alongside one another of how work might articulate an experience of space while seemingly transgressing it’s model of comprehension.'