The Warehouse of Disbelief

In The Warehouse of Disbelief , Chicago artist David Wolf transforms Gallery 400 into a space that alludes to a storeroom, a construction site, and a backstage.   Altering the walls, ceiling, and lighting of the gallery while stockpiling the space with such objects as scaffolding, ladders, crates, boxes, barrels, and rope, Wolf pushes visitors to address a situation that is simultaneously fictional and true, artifice and reality; one that implicates visitors in a narrative, yet resists fantasy.   Incorporating themes of re-use, adaptation, and appropriation of space, this project harkens back to the gallery's origins as a grocery store, re-imagining its utility as a warehouse for material that slides between quotidian and artistic states.