EXHIBITION REVIEW: MARJAN TEEUWEN - "DESTROYED HOUSE"

For the last decade, Marjan Teeuwen has sought out enigmatic settings for her ongoing Destroyed House series, which is currently on display at Bruce Silverstein Gallery. The buildings that house her labyrinthian structures were once actual homes. Teeuwen’s work begins where their conventional purposes end. No longer domains for ordinary people, she transforms their interiors into vast networks of assemblage.

Within each home, the Dutch artist demolishes walls and floors, reconstructing rooms to her liking. Using the leftover debris and rubble, she develops her own designs with minimalist color palettes. While the locations remain the same, the interiors bear little to no resemblance to their original forms.