Two Versions of Inquietude: After Sonia Delaunay

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Given a hotel room, abstracted as a resting place, and tempered by ideas of art history, appropriation, authenticity and value, interactions and objects that create the installation Two Versions of Inquietude: After Sonia Delanauy. The research started with Sonia Delanauy’s room layouts and fashion designs that utilized her graphic sensibility in public and private spaces. Opposite walls are covered with painted non- repeating harlequin patterns. Each wall has a convex mirror: one complete; one broken and re-assembled in layers, thereby manifesting feelings of anxiety and desire. Two harlequin patterned bathrobes and sleep masks hang in the room for viewers to wear while expanding their participation and thoughts regarding art and value: parameters manifested by the exhibition For What Its Worth, at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.