Big Beige Eyes

Big Beige Eyes

Contributors

November 7 – December 4, 2014

Big Beige Eyes is a solo exhibition of work by Kalli Niedoba inspired by the upscale beige-tinted interior of a Los Angeles branch of Citibank. The bank has invested in interior design as a means to orchestrate social order; The bank seeks to meet the goals of finance. As people line up, they are accounted for as customers of varying class standing – and a pseudo-democratic welcome desk stands waiting as an artifice of infrastructure.

In this body of work, Niedoba adopts the bank’s warmth in the interior of 221A, creating an audio loop uttering a favourite vacation spot, mounting vertical blinds to cover up what shouldn’t be seen and installing a large and comforting extruded T that sits just below the chin. Niedoba’s work emulates the aggression of good manners the banks’ interior lends, demonstrating how the dominant class evokes financial narratives through routinized body language.

Opening Reception

November 6, 7pm

Project Support

BC Arts CouncilCanada Council for the ArtsCity of Vancouver