7.9 Cubic Metres

7.9 Cubic Metres is a free-standing structure within Stanley Picker Gallery, London.

7.9 Cubic Metres operates as an autonomous gallery within the public gallery. The artists project initiated by James Carrigan, is programmed independently by the curator Eliza Tan.

Through the development of a series of 12 exhibitions throughout 2009-10 within the space, the gallery and its archive will become the material of a fully-formed artwork, in and of itself.

7.9 Cubic Metres explores the gallery as a culturally charged and symbolically loaded site. It queries the process whereby cultural material acquires a given object status when it is validated, received and consumed within a white cube. The shifting roles which artists, curators, institutions and their audiences play in defining the nature, positioning and value of art within and beyond the gallery walls further come under scrutiny.