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Chapel Gallery Exhibit Features Student Writing in Response to “Readymade Objects”
Westminster’s Chapel Gallery features an exhibit titled “Ekphrasis: From Object Matter to Subject Matter” from Feb. 11 to March 31. The exhibition is a collaboration of Westminster’s Visual and Performing Arts Department and English Department. Objects drawn primarily from the collection of the performing arts serve as an invitation for creative student writing.
“Around 1915, Marcel Duchamp introduced the idea of the ‘readymade’ when he displayed and re-contextualized ordinary manufactured objects as art,” said Chapel Gallery Director John Sandoval. “It is in this tradition that objects are displayed in the Chapel Gallery. Responding to a work of art with another form of art is a process of ekphrasis. The objective of this exhibition is to engage in a type of prosopopeia, coaxing the objects to speak.” Student writings are exhibited with each object.
The free show is open to the public on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Fridays from noon until 1:30 p.m., when Westminster is in session. (It will be closed during spring vacation, March 5-24.) The gallery is located on the lower level of Andrews Memorial Chapel.
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