Anne Low: Chair for a woman
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
January 18 – March 24, 2019
“But John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition […] So I will let it alone and talk about the house.”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
These are familiar little things. Unfolding like a banquet of discriminating tastes, I savour the trifles in silver, fastening ties sweetly knotted, trims dressed in wooden pearls. On first entering the room, the sculptures appear in carnivorous arrangement, a tangled density in which shapes assume and consume other shapes. But as I advance, step features six meticulously crafted sculptures that could be classified as: a writing desk, a fire screen, a stool, a step, a chair, a doorway. The finely made pieces appear summoned out of ancient palaces and historic parlour rooms, bringing with them the affects of their matrilineal relations.
