- Venue
- Index
- Starts
- Saturday, May 5, 2012
- Ends
- Monday, May 7, 2012
- Address
- Brewery Lane, Thrupp Stroud GL5 2EA
- Location
- South West England
Internationally acclaimed artist Aleksandra Mir will be showing The Big Scale (2010) as it undergoes modifications by C. Burr Design/Fabrication (Stroud) to increaseits capacity.“A bathroom scale that can carry a metric tonne. For the fat, for the slim, for one person, for two, for many, for a whole family, for neighbors, for co-workers, for people and their pets, for a class of children, for random gallery goers to weigh themselves together as they pass through the space.”Mir’s work often takes the form of social processes that are understood in terms of everyday life, frequently employing humanistic and playful strategies. Developed from site-specific or social observations she reveals a critical, self-aware investigation
