Object of Existence. Eating/Sleeping Home for the Aged

Amanda Ahmed and Deborah Ostrow borrow statistically from Mondrian's oeuvre, turning the motif of utopian modernism back upon itself. Ahmed's construction, Lots A' Blocks, resembles Mondrian's Pier and Ocean paintings and is made from brightly coloured kitchen scourers, Ostrow's video depicts her grandmother going through the motions of eating and sleeping in her first week in a home for the aged. The symbolic representation of a perfectly ordered and equal society is re-presented by these two emerging artists translated into the domestic or institutional environments in which utopian painters, designers and architects imagined that their project would be realised. Both works present the everyday enacted with a gridded and regular environment and reveal the repetition and paucity of an existence within it.