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Sean Bluechel
sculptures
mar 9 - april 1, 2001
 opening reception fri mar 9, 6-9 pm
Bluechel's recent body of work explores ' various architectural spaces as sculpture'- spaces that are created by temporarily claiming the belongings and personal places of others as one's own.
For example, in the Crime Sculptures, Bluechel broke into a stranger's home. Using a flashlight, he made sculptures from the contents of the home, photographed them and left. Bluechel describes the process
of appropriating another's private belongings as creating a transitory sense of belonging.
"I flirt with the notion of belonging. . . I enter private spaces, manipulate private objects, claiming for a brief time other people's belongings . . I become physically homeless as well as psychologically."
By redefining notions of home(less)ness and belonging in terms of psychological states, Bluechel's work evidences a poetic sensitivity to the sculptural possibilities of all circumstances and situations.
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