Artistic archeology explores world of dresser drawers
We joke about how we’d love to rifle through other people’s drawers, but seldom do we get the chance.
This weekend, an Edmonton art collective is offering the opportunity to scratch that itch, though don’t expect to dig up undies or dirty magazines.
The Fast & Dirty art collective has assembled a quirky, intriguing mobile art show featuring five dressers with curious, artful contents.
Twenty artists are involved in Curiosities, each of them assigned one drawer that adheres to that dresser’s theme, be it ‘family,’ ‘intimacy’ or ‘landscape.’ There is a different curator for each dresser.
“The idea came from thinking about dressers as private spaces, and trying to make those spaces public,” said Kristen Hutchinson, co-founder of Fast & Dirty.
The collective then combined the idea with the tradition of curiosity cabinets to create the project.
They collaborated with staff at the Royal Alberta Museum for one of the dressers, whose theme is ‘collections,’ creating casts of animal bones from moulds in RAM storage. “It’s a reconsideration of their collections, taking that as a source of inspiration.”
Curiosities is installed in a moving van that will be stationed in different areas of the city this weekend.
On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the van will be parked on the west side of 104th Street between Jasper Avenue and 100th Avenue.
On Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., it will be on the north side of Whyte Avenue between 104th and 105th Street.
Fast & Dirty’s mission is making art accessible to people by doing short shows in unusual locations, Hutchinson said.
There’s no charge to explore Curiosities, though bring along your patience.
Only a few people can go into the moving van at one time, given space restrictions.
For more info, visit Fast & Dirty Facebook page.