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Kate Newby has an astute awareness of what lies latent in a site. She
attends to this by a method of research that draws out and visualises a
state of consciousness–political, psychological or social. In the case
of this project, she accentuated the foyer space and found the outlook
of the window gallery to amplify and shift how one behaves in these
settings to make an occasion out of it. In questioning the implications
of the event, for this project Newby was particularly informed by the
history of the Berlin Wall, and the border of control it represented
between two irreconcilable ideologies. In using the gallery as a
metaphoric situation, Newby presents a provocation to its function and
suggests the possibility of another. By negotiating the boundary between
the inside and outside of the institution, she employs the casual as a
means of passing through, to make an escape route towards the space of
lived experience.
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