Art Metropole

#15928

Germaine Koh: Fallow

Price

$16.00

Date

2012

Publisher

ECU Press and Charles H. Scott Gallery

Format

Catalogues

ISBN

9780921356387

Genre

Environment, Asian Art & Artists, Canadian, Architecture

This volume documents Germaine Koh’s large-scale installation work titled Fallow, in both its public presentations in Vancouver, at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, and Berlin, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In Fallow, plants and groundcover from an urban lot have been transplanted into the gallery, completely filling the exhibition space. The sense of disuse and non-productivity associated with vacant lots is transformed through this process of relocation. What was once identified as a void within the landscape of urban development is ascribed with new use value. As Koh says, “Although withdrawn from ‘constructive’ use, the space is far from empty, but rather full of richly non-productive time and process.”

Germaine Koh’s site-responsive projects have been shown at numerous galleries internationally including the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The British Museum in the UK, De Appel in the Netherlands, Art Forum Berlin and the Frankfurter Kunstverein. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

Edited by Cate Rimmer and Kathy Slade
Published by ECU Press and Charles H. Scott Gallery