garage
celador, 2024With works by Grégory Decock, Xavier Mary and Lewis Teague Wright.
The exhibition developed out of an evening at celador on 21st May hosted with Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela departing from their book Garage (MIT, 2018);
A secret history of the garage as a space of creativity, from its invention by Frank Lloyd Wright to its use by start-ups and garage bands.
Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage when he moved the automobile out of the stable into a room of its own. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (allegedly) started Apple Computer in a garage. Suburban men turned garages into man caves to escape from family life. Nirvana and No Doubt played their first chords as garage bands. What began as an architectural construct became a cultural construct. In this provocative history and deconstruction of an American icon, Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela use the garage as a lens through which to view the advent of suburbia, the myth of the perfect family, and the degradation of the American dream.
In collaboration with NW Aalst, where a screening and artist talk with Olivia Erlanger took place on 23rd May.
Photography: Benjamin Baltus