On View: Everything Loose Will Land

title wall and text

Everything Loose Will Land is on view now through November 9 in Paul Rudolph Hall. The exhibition features pieces of art and architecture (often in-process works and sketches) that embody the relationship between art and architecture in 1970s Los Angeles. The exhibit comes to Yale from MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles.

atrium installation

The introductory text on the title wall explains that the exhibition organizes the work into four thematic categories: Procedures, Users, Environments, and Lumens. Each node stakes out its own area of the gallery, demarcated by white vinyl lettering on the floor. A rather unexpected strategy! Several exhibition pieces are not installed within the labeled boundaries, making it difficult to determine to which theme they might relate. 

 

environs label

lumens label

individual labels

Since the exhibition explores the loosening, expanding, and increasingly experimental ways in which artists represent architecture, surely the architectural ambiguity of the exhibition itself is intentional. As the interdisciplinary subject matter suggests, these pieces do not fit neatly into just one category. Content and image-making strategies used in one section resonate with that of other sections. All of these ‘loose’ pieces do indeed land somewhere in the space between these nodes. And I found challenged to “locate” how each piece related to every other in the show.