Off-site: Standing Still, Lying Down, As If

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Standing Still, Lying Down, As If is a group exhibition that brings together works by over 30 artists in the MOCAD’s Front Gallery with a large-scale off-site project in Detroit's Eastern Market.

As participants in public spaces, we are guided by the frameworks that we encounter within them. Omnipresent and multifarious, the forms of public communication are demarcated and facilitated through sets of parameters as a prerequisite for order. Motivated by the inevitability of our engagement with the pre-established conventions—and by a question of “What happens when a framework is misused?”—Standing Still, Lying Down, As If asks us to participate actively, and radically, within a framed space.

Expanding beyond the museum walls, a large scale off-site installation accompanies the main exhibition. In partnership with Red Bull Arts Detroit, several participating artists have been selected to develop location-based public works on exterior walls throughout the Eastern Market neighborhood.

Gerritzen’s installation draws inspiration from Eastern Market’s rich history of “typo jamming,” exploring the relationship between information and built environments. As Detroit’s complex real estate market is in flux, so too do we see shift in the way that data is stored and represented within architecture. Sourcing imagery from Diego Rivera’s iconic Detroit Industry Murals, Raad has created an enlarged mural of the most negligible content from Rivera’s frescoes: a bowl of fruit. While Detroit’s industrial landscape has dramatically changed since the times of Rivera, Raad uses the fruit as a cultural constant.