The first exhibition at DRAF’s new space in Camden, London, featuring works from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection.
A Houses of Leaves, references a work by American novelist Mark Z. Danielewski in which different storylines, told in different styles, intertwine. The story centres on a house that keeps changing, a house that resists measurement because its interior gradually becomes larger than its exterior.
This exhibition has been conceived as a process lasting six months, a symphony structured in three movements and an epilogue, each deriving from the study of a single key work from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection that defines the whole movement: Echo VIII, a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois (First Movement); Fuji, an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter (Second Movement); and Silent Score, a performance by Pierre Huyghe (Third Movement). The Epilogue moves towards the void, emptying the exhibition space to explore the architecture and volume of the space and reveal the long-term works — special commissions and interventions inscribed in the building itself. Each division will also highlight one different aspect of our project for a museum: the museum as structure in the first movement, as school in the second, as stage in the third and as site in the final movement.
