The Décor Project is series of collaborative projects initiated in 2001 in which the artists worked with collectors and curators to temporarily create sculptural installations out of (and within) their living spaces. Working from information gleaned from probing questionnaires (#17. Name something you own that you secretly wish your guests could see), the artists rearranged furniture, added artworks, and otherwise altered their subjects' homes, documenting the interventions in a series of large-scale color photographs.
In writer Melanie O’Brian’s words, “The Décor Project is the site to examine the “furnishings” of contemporary cultural production. …It incorporates the acts and objects of display to investigate the complex web of authorial power in visual art’s processes, roles, and spaces.”
Publication: The Décor Project, Projectile Publishing and Western Front Editions, Vancouver, 2006. With essays by: Clint Burnham, Melanie O'Brian & Jonathan Middleton
Ranging from a sculptural construction of On Kawara’s Date Paintings to a photographic translation of Fred Sandback’s yarn sculptures, each of the 13 Décor projects takes a different approach to interpreting the relationship between sculpture, installation and photography, as well as exploring the private and public economies of taste.