Rob Andrade Daniel Baird

If the construction of a monument is modeled on a collective ideal, then its physical manifestation is assumed to successfully render that ideal. Yet the contrary may also be true: the moment it claims to truthfully embody its ideal is precisely what is thrown into question. Is the built monument a desire of the yet-to-be, or can its manifestation actually show how an ideal is accomplished in reality? Could it be that a monument is inherently non-identical to its ideal, making it an abstraction from the very start? These questions allow us to see a monument as being a model itself, especially when a monument obliquely grasps its own latent promise. In a sense, the monument is in the way of an ideal.

Abandon In Place seeks to complicate the divisions between the prototypical form of a model and its realization as a monument. Where does a model end and a monument begin? This collaboration between artists Rob Andrade and Daniel Baird at the Janus Project will address these ideas through an installation and a series of computer renderings.

- Janus Project

The Janus Project is an alternative exhibition space previously inhabited as a family dwelling, occupying two floors of a large house with converted living spaces above. The hybrid architectural styles and domestic setting lend layered readings of the work that temporarily coexist within its walls.