Barbara Bloom
RSVP
For the exhibition RSVP, the gallery is filled with abstracted furniture- like forms that serve as display cases for objects. Barbara Bloom invites the visitor to experience the rooms as an exhibition space and also as the semblance of a home – one filled with imagined historical guests grouped around a piano, toasting at a table, conversing on the sofas, browsing in the library, playing cards, etc. One might think of the exhibition as a visit to a party in this home unaffected by time and space. We can eavesdrop on conversations between improbable combinations of figures who never actually met in real life.
For the exhibition RSVP, the gallery is filled with abstracted furniture- like forms that serve as display cases for objects. Barbara Bloom invites the visitor to experience the rooms as an exhibition space and also as the semblance of a home – one filled with imagined historical guests grouped around a piano, toasting at a table, conversing on the sofas, browsing in the library, playing cards, etc. One might think of the exhibition as a visit to a party in this home unaffected by time and space. We can eavesdrop on conversations between improbable combinations of figures who never actually met in real life.