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Article: Ward Shelley: Pierogi.(New York)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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For his recent project here, Ward Shelley took the mouse as metaphor, built a gallery inside the gallery, and took up residence in the gap between the two. But while most rodents do their best to remain out of sight, Shelley had rigged a complex of cameras, peepholes, and monitors--eight of which were mounted on a wooden post in the center of the inner gallery--so that viewers could witness him scurrying, sleeping, or making art in his new habitat, and he in turn could watch them watching him.
Shelley had made a series of pencil drawings on canvas that scrolled through a hole cut in the inner wall and openly invoked the tradition of the artist living in the ...