Sponsored by the Franco Noero Gallery in Turin, this artist-curated exhibition in the AAR Gallery and in the Cryptoporticus of the McKim, Mead & White Building looks at the everyday world through the work of two artists whose practices are very different but who have in common a fascination with the potential of the found object to become something else.

Installations by the American artist Jason Dodge find new narratives in the insignificance and marginality of objects taken from everyday life (gloves, blankets, pipes, lightbulbs, electrical wires). The total work is composed, both by the visible part of the object and by the invisible story surrounding and penetrating it: the detail becomes the mark of a generality bypassing it.

The Italian artist Martino Gamper has a particular interest in the psychosocial aspects of furniture design, including corners (the multiple emotions provoked by the single right-angled boundary) and underused spaces. His art often reworks unwanted objects through craftsmanship, and the story behind his art involves materials, techniques, people, and places, the finished product being a token of all of these things that inhabits the brief interlude between making and using.

The exhibition will be open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 4:00 to 7:00pm until April 29, 2013.