The Henry is pleased to present Fun. No Fun., a commissioned work by
Kraft Duntz, the Seattle-based artist/architect team of David Lipe, Matt
Sellars, and Dan Webb, in collaboration with artist Dawn Cerny. The
installation occupies the large open volume of the Henry’s lower level gallery
and investigates how space and memory mediate experience; just as desire and
lived experience affect the spaces we build, imagine, and occupy. This work
locates itself somewhere between sculpture and architecture and considers
states of togetherness and aloneness, purity and impurity, aspiration and
pragmatism.
The title Fun. No Fun. refers not only to the range of positive and negative emotions
that are linked to the genesis and execution of any given project, including
the many discussions to arrive at a final form, but also to the harder aspects
of exhibition making, including navigating institutional limitations and
physical and material constraints.
Fun.
No Fun.
is an installation composed of built forms and voids that together appear to
offer options but no apparent resolution—much like the world we live in, where
the opportunity for action appears endless but is often thwarted by closed
systems and networks. Through its very form, Fun. No Fun. reflects the inherent contradiction that exists
between exhilaration, expectation, and disappointment in the experience of art
and life. It suggests that navigating this persistent conundrum is at the
discretion of every individual, regardless of larger processes that explicate
and validate contemporary art and the world we live in.
