Erica Stocking - Richmond Art Gallery

Emerging Vancouver-based artist Erica Stocking (04) creates a new site-specific installation consisting of a bachelor apartment visible from both inside and outside Gallery Two of the Richmond Art Gallery. The contents of the apartment will be on loan from a Sears Department Store. Minimal aesthetic and phenomenological relationships with viewers are complicated by narrative spectacle. Theatricality is utilized to conflate public and private space, shopping and cultural engagement, exhibitionism and voyeurism. Using private spaces we can share with others, such as a hotel room, an apartment and the space of fairytales, Stocking creates installations that mirror our contemporary experience where interior/exterior dilemmas double as a metaphor for the private and public.

December 7 - January 10, 2008

Opening reception on Friday, December 7, 6:30-8:30pm. For further information, visit Richmond Art Gallery.