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Selected images from Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. One image shows tables with pictures on them. There is also a large framed abstract painting with pink and black in it. In another image, lights hang from the ceiling, along with flat-screen televisions with black-and-white pictures of buildings on them. In another image, there is a framed picture of foliage and buildings. Through a door, a dark image of an industrial building can be seen.

Behind Closed Doors

Monica Bonvicini, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Hiraki Sawa, Sean Snyder, Vangelis Vlahos, Amelie von Wulffen, Jane & Louise Wilson.

12 March - 01 May 2005

Intriguing and thought-provoking, Behind Closed Doors is an exhibition that seeks to challenge how we think about buildings through some outstanding works of contemporary art. It focuses on the meanings buildings develop as we inhabit them, the hidden stories they house, rather than their design or intended use. Using photography, collage, video and sculpture, the artists’ interests range from the political to the emotional, from reality to fantasy, but share an awareness of how buildings shape our world.

Behind Closed Doors: Exhibition Notes

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From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Pasting tables sit in DCA Galleries. One has an architectural model of a building on it. There is a framed painting on the wall, and a smaller picture hangs which has black-and-white photographs on it.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Glass lights hang from the ceiling, along with flat screen televisions which have black-and-white images on them. Black-and-white photographs can also be seen on the walls.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. A large metal frame stands in the galleries. On the wall, in spray paint, ar the words - 'Architecture is the ultimate erotic art. Carry it to excess'.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Models that look like tower blocks sit on tables in the galleries. Next to these models, are large framed lists.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. On one wall, there are photographs of foliage. Through a door, the other room is dark, but there is a dark image of a house which is photographed with a blue tinge.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Pasting tables sit in DCA Galleries. One has an architectural model of a building on it. There is a framed painting on the wall, and a smaller picture hangs which has black-and-white photographs on it.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Glass lights hang from the ceiling, along with flat screen televisions which have black-and-white images on them. Black-and-white photographs can also be seen on the walls.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. A large metal frame stands in the galleries. On the wall, in spray paint, ar the words - 'Architecture is the ultimate erotic art. Carry it to excess'.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Models that look like tower blocks sit on tables in the galleries. Next to these models, are large framed lists.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. On one wall, there are photographs of foliage. Through a door, the other room is dark, but there is a dark image of a house which is photographed with a blue tinge.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Pasting tables sit in DCA Galleries. One has an architectural model of a building on it. There is a framed painting on the wall, and a smaller picture hangs which has black-and-white photographs on it.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Glass lights hang from the ceiling, along with flat screen televisions which have black-and-white images on them. Black-and-white photographs can also be seen on the walls.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. A large metal frame stands in the galleries. On the wall, in spray paint, ar the words - 'Architecture is the ultimate erotic art. Carry it to excess'.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. Models that look like tower blocks sit on tables in the galleries. Next to these models, are large framed lists.
From Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. On one wall, there are photographs of foliage. Through a door, the other room is dark, but there is a dark image of a house which is photographed with a blue tinge.