Opening reception Saturday, October 26. 4 to 6 p.m.
Open daily thereafter, Monday through Saturday 12:00 noon to 5:30pm. Closed Sundays.
On view until November 30, 2002.

Social Space

Carrie Dashow, Devon Dikeou, Jill Epstein, Matthias Geiger, Tali Hinkis, Joni Lane, Susan Leopold, Mandy Morrison, Coralee Lynn Rose, Lizzie Scott, Patricia Smith

Curated by David Gibson.

At CUCHIFRITOS art gallery/project space.

Social Space statement:

CUCHIFRITOS is pleased to present "Social Space" curated by David Gibson, which explores the broad phenomenon of urban existence. This exhibition investigates two of the formal qualities which comprise the urban divideÐÐthat range of perceived reality which makes up the fabric of experience in major cities such as New York, London, Paris, and Berlin.

This is similar to the Situationist concept of the derive, an intentional wandering in unforeseen social and spatial quarters of the contemporary metropolis. Their intention was to invite one into a realm of completely unmitigated circumstance, mired in the idiosyncratic intermingling of accident and choice.

"Social Space" presents a more complex view, both diffuse and ambivalent, determined alternately by a dynamics of social interaction and the inscription of vague urban sites. The social and the spatial remain the two qualities which form a basis for understanding how each of us has been inculcated by formal aspects of city life, and how a conceptualization of such aspects may lead to further knowledge of the city as a system, a void, and a labyrinth of instinct.

-David Gibson 2002.