For Light sleeper, Ash Kilmartin has removed all the curtains from her Rotterdam apartment, and posted these to ST PAUL St Gallery for installation in the front window of the Gallery, FrontBox. Throughout the duration of the exhibition the interior lighting of FrontBox will be switched off only during the Gallery’s opening hours, suggesting a different pattern of work and dormancy, in a Northern hemisphere timezone 12 hours behind. Kilmartin’s recent works focus on specific items, places, and spatial conventions as a way to think about the qualities of time and labour. She is interested in how objects might store and communicate memory or history.
All the curtains from the artist’s apartment, envelope, lamp
ST PAUL St Gallery, AUT University, Auckland
19 February - 29 March 2016
Photographs: Samuel Hartnett