Inhabited Architecture
09.20.2012 - 05.19.2013
Humans inhabit the space of the present according to our past and, in turn, we construct our past from our present. All buildings have a history—a history of the domestic or the public, of the solitary man or the collective—but it is always about transience, about what we lived and what we staged. Inhabited Architecture is a presentation from the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, reflecting on the occupation of space as a place full of existing narratives or narratives yet to be created by the observer. Exhibiting collection works for the first time in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Inhabited Architecture presents Liam Gillick’s How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks (2009), Doris Salcedo’s Untitled (2008), Mona Hatoum’s Home (1999), Pello Irazu’s Life Forms 304 (2003), and Cristina Iglesias’s Untitled (Alabaster Room) (Sin título [Habitación de alabastro], 1993).
Curator: Lucía Agirre
Doris Salcedo
Untitled, 2008
Wood, metal, and concrete
78 x 247 x 121 cm
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
The Exhibition
LIAM GILLICK
How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks
Liam Gillick
How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks (How Are You Going to Behave? A Kitchen Cat Speaks), 2009
Wood, lamps, stuffed cat, text, door blinds, MP3 player
Dimensions variable
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Gift of the artist, with generous support from Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, and Esther Schipper, Berlin
DORIS SALCEDO
Untitled
Doris Salcedo
Untitled, 2008
Wood, metal, and concrete
78 x 247 x 121 cm
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
CRISTINA IGLESIAS
Untitled (Jealousy II)
Cristina Iglesias
Untitled (Jealousy II) [Sin título (Celosía II)], 1997
Wood, resin and bronze powder
260 x 350 x 300 cm
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
CRISTINA IGLESIAS
Untitled (Alabaster room)
Cristina Iglesias
Untitled (Alabaster room) [Sin título (Habitación de alabastro)], 1993
Iron and alabaster
Overall dimensions variable
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
MONA HATOUM
Home
Mona Hatoum
Home, 1999
Wood, galvanized steel, stainless steel, electric wire, crocodile clips, light bulbs, computerized dimmer switch, amplifier, and speakers
76.2 x 198.1 x 73.7 cm (table)
Overall dimensions vary with installation
Edition 1/3 and 1 AP
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
PELLO IRAZU
Life Forms 304
Pello Irazu
Life Forms 304, 2003
Iron, plywood, wood, adhesive tape, and mural
Structure: 360 x 315 x 340 cm
Overall dimensions variable
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Artists
Gillick, Liam
Aylesbury, England, 1964
Hatoum, Mona
Beirut, Lebanon, 1952
Iglesias, Cristina
San Sebastián, Spain, 1956
Irazu, Pello
Andoain, Spain, 1963
Salcedo, Doris
Bogotá, Colombia, 1958
Did you
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LIAM GILLICK
Turner Prize 2002. Tate Britain 4 production. Liam Gillick segment on his The Wood Way exhibition at the White Chapel, London, 2002. Courtesy of the artist. Extract.MONA HATOUM
Le Grand Monde. Mona Hatoum exhibition at the Fundación Botín, Santander, October 2010– January 2011. Courtesy Fundación Botín. English and Spanish audio with Spanish and English subtitles. Extract.CRISTINA IGLESIAS
Several audiovisual materials specially edited for the didactic area of the exhibition Inhabited Architecture, 2012. Courtesy of the artist. English and Spanish audio with Spanish and English subtitles. Extract.PELLO IRAZU
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s video production specially created for the didactic area of the exhibition Inhabited Architecture, 2012. Spanish audio with English subtitles. Extract.