Garage

A Multiple Medium Installation,

Dale Kistemaker and Lewis deSoto, 1990.

Installations for the Home, Secession Gallery, San Francisco

The Secession Gallery is a non-profit gallery dedicated to taking artwork out of the context of the traditional gallery/museum space.

Installations for the Home was its inaugural exhibition.

Garage is an installation utilizing sound, light and the icons of the automotive mechanic to explore dreams of mastery, power and escape that the automobile represents. Through a four channel audio system, sounds are heard that relate to the Saturday mechanic's experience: audio of of tools and engines, mixed with segments from an interview with Sir Stirling Moss, racing driver describing the feel of driving a race car at speed. The garage itself has been transformed into an environment that rarefies its own contents: an automobile under wraps, a red tool box, motor manuals and lighting suggesting nocturnal activity. The floor has been covered with a roofing paper that fills the room with the smell of petroleum. Through this transformation the garage becomes a reliquary of memories, desires, the ceremonies of competition and the illusion of mastery in a male world.

Overview of Garage, A Multiple Medium Installation, Dale Kistemaker and Lewis deSoto, 1990.

A wrapped automobile, floor covered with roofing paper, red tool box with motor manuals, safety cone, work light and four channel audio

of tools and engines mixed with audio segments from a racing driver describing the feel of driving a race car at speed.