Margarita Fainshtein

The Beige Room

Pier 21 Museum of Immigration
October 19 - 20, 2019

The Beige Room project is a multilayered and interactive installation, which creates mutual experience for the audience. To their attention will stand impersonal beige room filled with beige furniture/objects. The Room will offer graphite pencils and erasers to draw, write and erase on the walls and pieces of furniture, while the room becomes an object by itself. At the entrance to the space there will be an instruction, a sign how to behave in the space, which ironically will make a connection to endless signs on Halifax streets between scaffolds and will comment on an idea of dictation and shaping individual behaviours. 

The installation is a site-specific unpredicted experience, where the room/space and the audience become one cohesive organism. The project literally explores changing and shifting grounds of a temporary space, offering the experience of transition while creating a new version of The Room / the space.