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Rebecca Key, MFA, has exhibited internationally, and worked as an art director in the film and television industry until 2006.
Key uses the placement of objects to examine the relationship between the artist and the gallery space, exploring the mythology that surrounds the creative process, within the institution, and other specific sites.
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Changeover, 68 Hope Street, Liverpool, UK 2008
Recently in Counterfeit (2010), Key’s installation appeared as a group show
exhibition. The props in the installation
took reference from the other artists she
met on the international residency program
in Iceland during her stay. The fictitious
group show was her personal construct of
what their group show at the end of the
month could look like, questioning concepts
of artwork authenticity and craft.
"Key creates installations that examine
social space. She has previously created
an arts administrator’s office in a gallery space,a creative inversion that ought to
have been too near the knuckle for many."
-- a-n magazine
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In previous work, drawing on skills used
in the film and television industry, Key
has transformed a gallery into an arts admin office: Administration (2005),
and another into artist’s studios:
Bankley Studios Gallery (2006).
In Changeover (2008) the gallery was dressed
to appear to be in-between exhibitions,
remnants used in the previous show (The
Martha Rosler Library) placed alongside
elements of a fictitious subsequent show.
In Archetype (2010) one wall of the gallery returned to it’s former appearance as a Washington DC alleyway, highlighting that
by using simply the archetypal white wall
and grey floor, any unusual site can be made
into a gallery.
Counterfeit, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland 2010
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