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Fallow
Published by ECU Press, Charles H. Scott Gallery
Artist: Germaine Koh
Editors: Cate Rimmer, Kathy Slade
Designer: Betty & Jane Design Co.
Publisher: ECU Press, Charles H. Scott Gallery
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 22.2 x 16 x 1.2 cm
Page count: 80 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 978 0 921356 38 7
Price: 22 CAD
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This volume documents Germaine Koh’s large-scale installation work titled Fallow, in both its public presentations in Vancouver, at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, and Berlin, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In Fallow, plants and groundcover from an urban lot have been transplanted into the gallery, completely filling the exhibition space. The sense of disuse and non-productivity associated with vacant lots is transformed through this process of relocation. What was once identified as a void within the landscape of urban development is ascribed with new use value. As Koh says, “Although withdrawn from ‘constructive’ use, the space is far from empty, but rather full of richly non-productive time and process.”
Biographies
Germaine Koh’s site-responsive projects have been shown at numerous galleries internationally including the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The British Museum in the UK, De Appel in the Netherlands, Art Forum Berlin and the Frankfurter Kunstverein. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.