Caitlin Kerker Mennen
This article refers to the P.S.1 exhibition Katrín Sigurdardóttir: High Plane V
Gordon Matta-Clark
Doors, Floors, Doors
Installation view for Rooms, 1976
Courtesy P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Gordon Matta-Clark
Doors, Floors, Doors
Construction view for Rooms, 1976
Courtesy P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Katrín Sigurdardóttir’s site-specific installation High Plane V required architectural and structural modification not unknown to P.S.1’s corner galleries. For P.S.1’s 1976 inaugural exhibition Rooms, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) modified the corner galleries in a similar manner by cutting into the floor and ceiling of the third, second, and first floors, creating Doors, Floors, Doors. Gordon Matta-Clark was known for site-specific works involving dramatic physical changes to architectural spaces. For example, an earlier work, Splitting (1974), literally cut through the middle of a house, splitting it in two.
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