Meet the artist
Thérèse Mastroiacovo

On October 22, 2022 from 2 pm to 4 pm

In the context of the exhibition Art of Research, Thérèse Mastroiacovo will be in the gallery between 2 pm and 4 pm to speak with the public and answer questions.

The entry into her work Performing Beyond Function, presented in the gallery, is through the research notebook for which she made a blank book. In each, she inserted one of 250 original drawings, a temporary occupation. Constructed through several gestures of withdrawal, the outer cover can be removed and with it, the ties to this context. Without the attachments, the book is freer, clearer, functional and open to possibilities for those who wish to use it.

Swing by Dazibao to see the exhibition and meet the artist in an informal setting!

The exhibition runs until November 5.

Thérèse Mastroiacovo’s work is about art as an idea, artistic process as methodology. It is about the precarious relationship art has to its own definition, open, half open, or slightly open for re-classification at any given time. The varying degrees of openness create space in-between, a space that gives way to meanderings, processes and procedures. Her work is situated here, in a space of potential created in the middle of preexisting structures. It is this — this large, large thing stated so, so plainly — that makes her work both familiar and unknowable.