“An object is not an object; it is a witness to a relationship.” –Cecilia Vicuña

Gearbox Gallery is pleased to present the special exhibition Lost In Things  in the Inner Room by Kathleen King. Kathleen King gathers detritus from city streets, natural objects collected over years of adventuring, and items culled from her domestic environment. As in a derivé, the psychogeographic game of wandering without purpose or destination, King’s willfully marginal sets of objects are arranged in meandering sequences. 

Inhabitants of large cities like Oakland share precarious social realities. Late-capitalist power systems construct and deconstruct our built environment relentlessly. Our desiring bodies move through physical spaces that obstruct and direct us. We live in relationship to each other within this contemporary urban milieu; in streets, tents, vehicles, encampments, shops, markets, apartments and homes, prisons and high-rises. As systems exploit and discard us, my show titled “Lost in Things” asks the questions, “What are we made of, what connects us, what do we need?”