Barbara Hashimoto: THE JUNK MAIL EXPERIMENT

Dialogue, shredded junk mail, 19.5 x 17.5 (framed) photo: EK Waller

Barbara Hashimoto’s multi-disciplinary visual and performance-based project, The Junk Mail Experiment, will be presented in two concurrent exhibitions - at the Musée du Montparnasse (Paris) and at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (Chicago).   

The genesis of The Junk Mail Experiment is founded in the artist’s year-long collection and hand-shredding of every piece of junk mail that came to her studio address.  At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material. Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations. 

Dubhe Carreño Gallery will exhibit work from this on-going environmental art project and present a live-video feed direct from the museum in Paris during the building of the installation and opening events. Upon her return to Chicago, Hashimoto will discuss her collaborative experiences in Paris and present a short-cut from Suzanne Körois’ film of the project in an Artist’s Talk at the gallery.  

You are invited to join the artist on facebook to follow the events of this project.   http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=525564121&ref=mf#/barbarahashimoto

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