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Nikita Gale — THREE DIMENSIONAL REST
Nikita Gale

THREE DIMENSIONAL REST

2019

THREE DIMENSIONAL REST presents as a compact sculptural form, measuring just 7.6 by 12.7 centimeters, cast from concrete and wrapped in terrycloth. The piece belongs to a broader installation in which Nikita Gale has punctured the walls of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and plugged each opening with one of these small, textile-bound objects, transforming the gallery's neutral architectural skin into something activated and attentive. Concrete, the default material of sidewalks, streets, and walls, carries an almost invisible cultural weight as the medium through which urban space is divided and controlled. By binding it with terrycloth, a fabric associated with absorption, both of moisture and of ambient sound, Gale introduces a tension between the hard grammar of built environments and the soft, improvisational strategies of creative communities that operate outside sanctioned channels. Terrycloth has a long history in DIY acoustics, used informally to quiet loud rooms and carve out space for work that institutional settings rarely accommodate. That layering of material meaning is precise and deliberate. The title draws on Western music notation, where a rest is not silence in any empty sense but a performed pause, a structured absence that gives shape to what surrounds it. When one voice rests, another voice gains room to be heard. Gale extends this logic into three dimensions and into architecture itself, proposing that walls, like scores, are full of instructions about who speaks, who is absorbed, and who is given space. The signed work functions simultaneously as autonomous object and as a record of a gesture made to the building, a small but insistent intervention in surfaces that usually pass without notice. For collectors, it offers a rare and physically modest entry point into a conceptual practice that consistently interrogates the politics of space, sound, and visibility.

Medium
Concrete, Terrycloth
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Nikita Gale, THREE DIMENSIONAL REST, 2019

THREE DIMENSIONAL REST presents as a compact sculptural form, measuring just 7.6 by 12.7 centimeters, cast from concrete and wrapped in terrycloth. The piece belongs to a broader installation in which Nikita Gale has punctured the walls of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and plugged each opening with one of these small, textile-bound objects, transforming the gallery's neutral architectural skin into something activated and attentive. Concrete, the default material of sidewalks, streets, and walls, carries an almost invisible cultural weight as the medium through which urban space is divided and controlled. By binding it with terrycloth, a fabric associated with absorption, both of moisture and of ambient sound, Gale introduces a tension between the hard grammar of built environments and the soft, improvisational strategies of creative communities that operate outside sanctioned channels. Terrycloth has a long history in DIY acoustics, used informally to quiet loud rooms and carve out space for work that institutional settings rarely accommodate. That layering of material meaning is precise and deliberate. The title draws on Western music notation, where a rest is not silence in any empty sense but a performed pause, a structured absence that gives shape to what surrounds it. When one voice rests, another voice gains room to be heard. Gale extends this logic into three dimensions and into architecture itself, proposing that walls, like scores, are full of instructions about who speaks, who is absorbed, and who is given space. The signed work functions simultaneously as autonomous object and as a record of a gesture made to the building, a small but insistent intervention in surfaces that usually pass without notice. For collectors, it offers a rare and physically modest entry point into a conceptual practice that consistently interrogates the politics of space, sound, and visibility.

Medium
Concrete, Terrycloth
Dimensions
overall: 7.6 x 12.7 cm
Year
2019
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

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