The New Gallery: Michelle Normoyle : P R E T T Y V A C A N T

Emptied of customers, owners and security I photographed the interior without fear or reprimand: pressing the camera against the thick pane, the glass of the storefront becomes the lens of the camera; a membrane through which the aesthetic and commercial values osmotically exchange. Its neutrality is an illusion. The empty store, like the empty gallery acts as a transitional device that bleaches out the past at the same time controls the future. The neutral space is merely an illusion and as such, subject to change...