Passageways (Dislocated remnants from simultaneous events #4, Providence, RI), 2007

Tavares Strachan
Bahamas, b. 1979, active United States
Passageways (Dislocated remnants from simultaneous events #4, Providence, RI), 2007
Wood, paint, and Plexiglas
Gift of Marc J. Lee
M.2019.294a–b

While living in Providence, Rhode Island, Tavares Strachan noticed a neglected industrial building with shattered windows; he then created a series of identically broken panes of glass and inserted them into the building’s window frames. Passersby were unlikely to notice the eerily identical shatter patterns in the windows, but, if they did, they were left to question the history and condition of the site. Strachan translated this intervention into Passageways, the sculpture on view here.