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Moun Room

Hauser & Wirth presents in New York “Thomas Houseago. Moun Room”, an immersive environment that represents a departure for the artist.

Thomas Houseago is most widely identified with monumental sculptures of the human body, figures admired for their brute physicality and potent tactility.

Drawing upon and deftly subverting classical sources, the artist creates forms that hover between power and vulnerability, old and new worlds. But with “Moun Room” – on view at Hauser & Wirth, in New York – Houseago reverses his standard subject-object relationship and, for the first time, places the viewer in the role of primary figure and active participant.

“Moun Room” invites us to move through space and among complex screens of the artist’s carefully layered and pierced materials, rather than to circle an opaque form. It calls upon us to explore its softly glowing channels and unravel the processes by which Houseago has assembled and reassembled physical space in an effort to chart fresh emotional territory.

Measuring approximately 11 m by 14 m wide, and 3,5 m tall, “Moun Room” is comprised of three chambers contained within one another. The spaces Houseago has conceived with “Moun Room” – extending both within and outside the structure's physical walls – invite meditation upon movement and codes of behavior in response to architecture. The artist has described this work as “a visual maze with a spiritual dimension”.

Thomas Houseago, Moun Room , 2013 – 2014 . Tuf-Cal, hemp, iron rebar 1098.6 x 1388.1 x 365.8 cm. Installation view, “Thomas Houseago. Moun room”, Hauser & Wirth New York, 2014. © Thomas Houseago. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson

until January 17, 2015
Thomas Houseago
Moun Room
Hauser & Wirth
18th Street, New York

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Hauser & Wirth presents in New York “Thomas Houseago. Moun Room”, an immersive environment that represents a departure for the artist.

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