What's Happening in Kirkwood, MO…

Abigail DeVille, an artist based in New York, has recently installed her work ‘St. Louis Blues’ at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis.

The exhibit is part of the museum's Urban Planning group exhibit, and fills an entire room, according to an article in the Riverfront Times. Perhaps most intriguing is that the entire structure is made of trash and found objects.

DeVille believes the objects people use and discard are “witnesses of history,” and among the objects DeVille used in St. Louis Blues are a charred, door she found in an abandoned lot. She placed it between two fences – o ne a traditional white picket fence she wrapped with barbed wire and decorated with Christmas ornaments, and the other covered with reflective utensils. She surrounded it with a wooden dome resembling that of the St. Louis' Old Courthouse. A model train, pulling a boxcar full of bones, loops through the structure.

She notes she wanted to build two distinct spaces – those that call domestic African-American spaces to mind, and those that are likely to remind people of suburban America in the 1950s. Some objects on one fence are never found on the other, DeVille says.

The evocative structure will be on display at the museum until August 13. Institutions like this can benefit by working with brochure printers, which can create Booklets that show the items on display.



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