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Phyllida Barlow - Depot (1995)

Phyllida Barlow, Depot, 1995

British artist Phyllida Barlow transformed the space into a form of Depot, a depository, a place for old or forgotten items, that while not in use, or currently useful, are the sort you worry about disposing of.  Several wooden structures were formed platforms or useless shelving units that were propped against the wall. Some painted, others left raw, some held other objects others were empty and in the space huge mysterious foam rolls, bound tightly were bodily in their habitation of the space. One reading of these objects is that they were simulacra  for other more precious things, possibly sculptures wrapped inside the foam, or perhaps they were a memory of lost forms in the institutional glare of florescent light.
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Phyllida Barlow
1944 - 2023
Depot, 1995
Installation view: the Museum of Installation, London. Photograph: Edward Woodman
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