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Site: Western Union
" Build to suit"
An Installation by Wayne Zebzda at Haines Gallery ,San Francisco 1991
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The Haines gallery held an
exhibit in an abandoned Western Union office. Artists were
allowed to use existing discarded artifacts from the site. I set
up an office environment with a receptionists desk. (A receptionist
would sit at it during the exhibit ). A new wall was constructed
right through the furniture and equipment, dividing it in two
. It had a dreamlike quality , as if the typewriters and desks
were melting into the wall.
I was trying to address the transient nature of business today , make the site feel as if everyone moved on in a hurry and left everything behind. Years later we had the dot com exodus in San Francisco When I was younger it seemed as if buildings and businesses lasted forever. They were landmarks giving one a sense of comfort. They gave you a bearing and some history to keep inside you. . Your father worked at a place and his before him etc...today these structures seem more malleable , fragile, unstable, forever being changed or replaced. It's often unsettling.
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