Comprising fabric and LED lights, Lynn Richardson’s Inside The Fence (2013) becomes an incisive artistic commentary on the orange-and-white construction barricades that pop up at every urban redevelopment and gentrification project. Richardson’s installation turns these barricades in floating sculptures so there no longer is a functional purpose for restricting movement or admittance to sites previously seen as forbidden to curious onlookers.
This two-day installation involved lots of (literal) moving pieces and required a good amount of patience and attention to detail. Each floating “barricade” was assembled by the artist one by one before being strung from the gallery ceiling using fishing line and metal eyelets. Hanging lights, plugged into the track lighting above, were placed in each barricade with all cables and extension cords being carefully routed in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The back wall of the gallery features 8 motorized flags that wave up and down throughout the exhibit.