Room

For The Whole Wide World

Elisa Gabor, Sanaz Mazinani, Anna Neighbor, Sarah Palmer, Elisabeth Tonnard

Vox Populi Gallery 2014. Elisabeth Tonnard’s Invisible book

named after a Wreckless Eric song, is a curated photographic project curated by Jay Muhlin, bringing together a range of artists whose work explores different languages of photographic abstraction.

The project assembles varied approaches to space, perception, and materiality, transforming ordinary rooms, surfaces, objects, and fragments into unstable visual environments where scale, memory, and imagination begin to shift. Through close observation, the familiar becomes expansive, suggesting how small spaces can hold psychological, symbolic, and emotional worlds.

Static in common logic
Inside itself
I assure you

Abstract as not to negate
But to redirect and redefine

Reading beyond category
Currently in body
Not a direct link
to the cultural conscience

Mapping notions of fantasy
And desire
Not avoiding meaning
In a language of its own logic

In its result
Something
is the present

-JM

Room for the Whole Wide World offers five artists’ findings from the field of abstraction, using ideas rooted in photography as a starting point. Within these artworks abstraction is a viable method for discovering larger truths and mapping our desires.

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Exhibition wall with text displaying artist names and artwork title: Elisa Gabor, Sanaz Mazinani, Anna Neighbor, Sarah Palmer, Elisabeth Tonnard, and the title "Room For The Whole Wide World".

Gallery Text & Sanaz Mazinani’s Silk

An art installation featuring a floral-patterned fabric draped over a wooden sculpture, set against a plain white wall and wooden floor.
An art sculpture of a person dressed in a floral shirt and wooden plank pants, standing against a white wall.
White pedestal with gray brick on top, featuring a black outline of a hand and a line extending from the brick onto the pedestal, set on a wooden floor with a plain gray wall background.

Anna Neighbor

Art gallery with a sculpture of a person and two framed black-and-white abstract artworks on the walls.
Two black and white abstract art pieces framed and hung on a white gallery wall. The left piece features a crumpled metallic surface with a tilted rectangular frame, and the right piece displays a splatter pattern with two tilted frames overlapping.

Sarah Palmer

Art gallery with abstract artworks, a tapestry with blue and white pattern, and small screens on white walls.
A tall, vertically oriented fabric or textile with a blue and white symmetrical abstract pattern hanging on a white wall in an art gallery or exhibition space.

Sanaz Mazinani

Pattern of flying seagulls in a clear blue sky with clouds, mirrored to create a symmetrical kaleidoscope effect.

Elisa Gabor

A cardboard box lamp with a lampshade on a stand, illuminated from behind, against a plain wall
A damaged cardboard box with torn edges and peeling tape, against a neutral background.
Two cylindrical objects made of cardboard and foam, wrapped in paper with remnants of printed text, placed on a black circular base on a wooden surface, against a plain wall background.
An LCD screen on a white wall displaying an abstract blue and white digital image, with a small white shelf holding a folded paper next to it.

Elisa Gabor - Video, Performance, & Gallery Text Piece

Contemporary art gallery with white walls, wooden floor, and various abstract artworks, including black and white paintings and a large blue and white patterned textile hanging from ceiling.
Text on a black background listing names of artists and curator for an exhibition titled "Room For The Whole Wide World" curated by Jay Muhlin, including Elisa Gabor, Sanaz Mazinani, Anna Neighbor, Sarah Palmer, and Elisabeth Tonnard.

Vox Populi Gallery 2014

Philadelphia PA