“Never doubt that what you do has an impact. No matter what your job happens to be.” A blogger I just found (Victo Dolore) wrote that, and I’m beginning with it, because it frames what I have to say today, really well.

Alot of people don’t know how to take art of the kind you see in galleries. And I can’t say I always know how to take it either?

(Rirkrit Tiravanija)

BUT…

I love that it exists, and by “it” I mean the kind I don’t know how to take.

Because art, like people, places, or occurrences you don’t know how to take – give you the opportunity to travel to the unknown, which always re-casts who you know yourself to be in the moment, providing a fresh return to life.

You discover, instead of “know,” as you try to figure out what you’re looking at or what it means.

(Rachel Rose)

And in that practice, life is made pliable, first in your head, then in your heart, last in your environment.

(Rirkrit Tiravanija)

And from that, a kind of “freedom” emerges.

You become a discoverer, not tied to the posts which defines all corners of life.

Free in the midst of constraints, obligations, requirements and responsibility.

(Rachel Rose)

Free in the chains.

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*Pictures are from two Gavin Brown Enterprises exhibitions on September 24th, 2017. The video installations are by artist Rachel Rose, and the photos of pieces made by Rirkrit Tiravanija.