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"Installations come in all stripes, and frequently they
deal with the physical space that they occupy. In this case,
Ellen Driscoll and Nick Tobier have extended the reach of
their work to include a hefty chunk of the surrounding neighborhood.
The Gallery at Green St. is situated in a spcae adjacent to
the Green Street Station MBTA stop on the Orange Line, a working-class
Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The artists documented the neighborhood
with photographs that were taken in a quarter-mile radius
around the gallery--roughly the area Green St. services. The
images are an eclectic blend of buildings, signs, houses and
even graffiti and litter. Gallery visitors...can push a wooden
turnstile that spins like a subway gate. The turnstile drives..a
wheel, and the axle, which passes through a wall, turns another
large pinwheel type construction on the other side of the
wall. The photographs of the neighborhood ..are mounted on
the pinwheel's outer edge...One can make numerous associations
between "Turnscope" and the world outside the gallery;
the turn-styles in Green Street Station below the street;
the wheels of subway cars; the circular shape of subway tunnels.
Commuting also brings to mind the circular pattern of one's
travels--leaving on the day's journey and retracing one's
footsteps on the trip home. "Turnscope" lets viewers
consider the space that the piece inhabits, and sense how
the gallery is connected with the area outside of the building's
walls."
Paul Parcellin in Retro-Rocket
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