Sat 7/25 @ 5-7PM
Abattoir Gallery, whose main location is at the Hildebrandt Provisions Building, in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, has an auxiliary space in Ohio City’s Hingetown, called Abattoir at the Quarter, where it’s placed art for long runs.
This weekend, it will be presenting a new installation there, conceived and executed by two “image-based digital artists,” Columbus-based Clare Gatto and Detroit-based Kara Güt, who work as a team in creating “digital lens-based media both based in the Midwest.”
The piece at Abattoir is called, Porphyry Gates, a culmination of an earlier installation called Magic Circle, presented last year in Detroit.
“While world building is the core interest, this manifestation consisting of commercial light boxes, vinyl murals, photographs and photogravures offers a different experience visually and philosophically into a specific fabricated environment,” the press release tells us ellipically “The exhibition takes its title from porphyry; an igneous stone made of crystals embedded within a fine-grained matrix. This composite structure mirrors the construction of the exhibition’s portals and wall vinyl, which are generated through photogrammetry by assembling many photographs into a three-dimensional landscape before compressing it into a flattened image.”
They say these installations are inspired by fantasy role-play video game design, based on their own fantasy world called “The Cloud of Unknowing,” with. each installation representing another level of the game.
The installation opens with a free, public reception Saturday July 25, and will be on view through November 2026.