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For Charlie’s 2020 Play Project, ‘Curate the Home’, the fellows headed to Gulzar’s Home Stay  with artist, Nibha Sikander. The fellows were paired off in their inviter / invitee duos and each given an envelope. In there they found paper, pens, tape and crayons (all from the poundshop) and an image. Each envelope contained a different image of an artist who had make work specifically in / for a domestic setting.

The Play Project ‘rules’ were to find a space in the home stay and curate two projects – a solo show by one of the duo, and the second a response to the image found in the envelope.

Here are the works made by each duo (or single trio as Nibha joined Charlie and Adam’s group) with the inspiration images.

Adam, Charlie & Nibha

Part 1 – mobiles designed by Adam with interventions by Nibha upon a couple of them.

Part 2 – in response to Richard Wentworth’s intervention in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s 1991 The Kitchen Show. Adam, Charlie and Nibha used the paper cut out remnants to create platforms / stages for found objects in Nibha’s house – the found objects being her artworks.

Ana & Rose

Responding to the below image by Paul Newman, Ana and Rose created rubbings, made with their fingers pressing into the paper over ‘imperfections’ found in things in and outside of the house.  They then exhibited these on the staircase in the house on surface plains similar to those where the original rubbings were made. Ana and Rose then contextualised these works in an art historical and philosophical way through a performance essay.

Kyoko and Goto

Inspired by the Louise Lawler image above, Kyoko and Goto wanted to present a piece of work in the kitchen to mimic the composition. Keeping the fridge to the right of the frame and the artwork to the left, they bought the outside in (a papaya tree branch that they found fallen from a tree) and built a plinth for it – like the Jeff Koons piece. This piece was also kinetic, with the papaya’s falling from the tree onto the upturned cooking pot.

Veeranganakumari and Vishwa

Vee and Vishwa created a series of invitations curated by VS & VS (their initials), each invite had a quote written on the back by Vee that Vishwa had said whilst making the work. The fellows were invited to then search for the work made by Vishwa, the final piece being a drawing of the household space the fellows had to navigate to find it – the staircase.

 

 

For part of SqW:Lab 2020 the fellows travelled to the main island by boat to Raigad for a nights stay and realistion of Play Project: Curate the Home at the Gulzar Homestay.

As guests of artist Nibha Sikander, the fellows broke up into pair to respond to the play project brief, to find a space in / around the house and create a piece of work / exhibition inspired by an image in a ‘pack’. Each pack contained crayons, paper, tape, felt tips (all from a UK pound shop) and an image Charlie had selected from exhibitions realised in domestic spaces, including Iain Baxter& ‘Bagged Place’ , Paul Newman’s wall drawing detail from ’18th Storey: the Haddon Tower Project’, Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ‘The Kitchen Show’, and Louise Lawler’s image ‘Foreground.’

All works were installed and exhibited for a pne night only exhibition for the fellows and Nibha only. Each duo (or trio in the case of Adam Nathaniel Furman, Charlie Levine and Nibha Sikander) then did a guided tour of their works. This was after the fellows walked to the beach to catch the sunset.

For the first open studio SqW:Lab 2020 fellows exhibited works made in the fortnight they were together in Mumbai. The works were the result of the four Play Projects as well as a self directed practice.

Works above created by invited fellows: Ana Cavic, Kyoko Ebata, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Veeranganakumari Solanki and guest Nibha Sikander. Also by Directors, Katsushi Goto, Charlie Levine, Rose van Mierlo and Vishwa Shroff.

Ana Čavić , Katsushi Goto and Charlie Levine’s response to Rose van Mierlo’s Tender Buttons: Room Play Project was this short performance film. Moving round the Squareworks balconies, that link room to room in the property, we are taken on a shadowy tour of memory, encounter, time and the moon through a series of gazes, objects and shared private moments.

 

For Rose van Mierlo’s Tender Buttons: Food play project, Rose and Adam Nathaniel Furman produced a series of photographs and a film exhibited together to show the beauty of the outside and the inside of food.