Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects
opening reception November 11, 2023 2–5pm
on view November 11–December 9, 2023
Since 2019 Lydia Rosenberg has been writing a novel-as-sculpture: a project consisting of a written narrative that emphasizes the description and movement of objects. Characters in the novel serve as collaborators in conceptualizing sculptures based on the written narrative in which they act. Previous exhibitions connected to this project have featured those sculptures based on excerpts of the novel. For Incomplete Objects, the fifth iteration, Rosenberg is pursuing the form of serial fiction as a way to develop the text itself, as a sculpture.
The gallery at Labor is a Medium will become the mail-room: the fictional office of the publisher of the novel-in-progress. For the duration of the exhibition, subscribers to the project mailing list will receive weekly unique versions of the existing four chapters of the novel-as-sculpture. Subscribers are invited to return their chapters with edits and suggestions, to be recorded in the final version(s) of the novel. Each week, a copy of all versions to date will be presented at the mailroom table.
Visitors may subscribe in person at Labor is a Medium.
All images credit to Perry Doane, copyright by the artist
