Para-Site
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, was the first American art museum dedicated to modernism. MoMA moved into its permanent home, designed by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, a decade later. Completed in 1939, the new building defined a modern architecture for modern art that included open galleries with track lighting, movable partitions, and white walls. It established a paradigm of gallery space — the “white cube”—that has since become the norm. Conceived as a “neutral” setting that focuses attention on the art, the white cube isolates art from context: the object is stripped bare to accept the curator’s interpretation. The museum directs the eye of the visitor, but every viewer nevertheless smuggles their own perspective into the gallery. The site-specific installation Para-Site intervenes in the complex construction of vision in the museum.
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