Mirjam Thomann / Group XXXIX, Oct 2014 - Mar 2015

GROUP 39

3/13/15 to 3/15/15

Mackey Apartments and Garages 1137 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019

The premises for an exhibition presentation are of special concern in the work of Berlin-based artist Mirjam Thomann. The circumstances she encounters on the path to a new project or a new piece become part of the work and are newly configured, arranged, staged, and supplemented. What is at hand then is therefore used as an impetus, as material, as a space and as terrain. For Final Projects Thomann's work interacted directly with unit #3 of the Mackey Apartments, where she lived and worked during the 6 months of her residency. The windows of the apartment—visible from the street, the entrance to the backyard, and from the backyard/Garage Top—were altered to reference the window splashes one finds on commercial storefronts all across Los Angeles.