how far back do you want me to go (these walls can't talk)
Clover Archer how far back do you want me to go (these walls can't talk) July 25 - September 10, 2012
The Medicine Factory Gallery
Memphis, TN
July 25 - September 10, 2012

For this site-specific wall drawing installation, I traced outlines of all of the marks, holes, stains, imperfections, scrapes, scuffs, scars and scratches on the walls of my Virginia art studio. I then repeated the process directly on the walls in the exhibition space at the Medicine Factory. Finally, I transposed the marks from my studio walls on to the walls of the Medicine Factory. By turning the spectral aspects of art-making into the art object itself, by making the invisible visible, I hope to provoke the viewer to be more attuned to peripheral details that haunt every aspect of our experience.

512 square feet (virginia studio) = blue
536 square feet (medicine factory) = black


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wall 4
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Clover Archer how far back do you want me to go (these walls can't talk)
how far back do you want me to go
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Clover Archer how far back do you want me to go (these walls can't talk)
how far back do you want me to go
(detail)
Clover Archer how far back do you want me to go (these walls can't talk)
how far back do you want me to go
(detail)
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