01-18-2008

Today, some men came to the Metropolitan Exchange to pick up a model Interboro made. The model—a simple, 5½’ x 4’ replica of the Dutchess Mall rendered in medium-density fiberboard and finished with “Screen Goo,”—was en route to the Walker Museum in Minneapolis, where it will be exhibited in “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” a show that will “demonstrate how the American suburb has played a catalytic role in the creation of new art. Challenging preconceived ideas and expectations about suburbia (either pro or con), the exhibition hopes to impart a better understanding of how those ideas were formed and how they are challenged by contemporary realities.”

This sounds well and good, and Interboro is very happy to be included in the show. The above-referenced model is actually a topographic screen on which a movie about the fabled Mall will be projected. Interboro will post some pictures of the piece when it is installed. The show opens on February 16.

Incidentally, Interboro’s project was featured in the January issue of Dwell, in an article called “Suburban Subversions.”