With works by artists
Bernadette Corporation, Leon Golub, Sharon Hayes, Ben Kinmont,
John Miller, Aleksandra Mir,
Adrian Piper, Julia Scher,
Michael Snow, and Valerie Tevere

September 24 - October 4, 2003
noon - 3pm daily

Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn

Curator Jacob Fabricius organized and exhibited an unusual outdoor group show on Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn. Combining conceptual art strategies and urban advertising techniques, Jacob Fabricius's Sandwiched (in New York) was a one-man, roving exhibition. From noon - 3pm each day, Fabricius stood somewhere along Fulton Mall, wearing sandwich-board artwork made by one of the ten artists in the show.

In an early description of Sandwiched (in New York), Jacob Fabricius wrote: "After living and working in Los Angeles for a couple of months, I started taking pictures of guys standing with sandwich boards. I thought, how can you stand there all day dressed up as a hot dog, or a Christmas tree? I thought that the people doing it must be desperate--because they needed the money, or because they couldn't get a "real" legal job. I took photographs of them for a while, not quite knowing why I was fascinated by these people that were most likely badly paid to dance around and look happy. Maybe it was because I was a tourist and we do not have the sandwich-board advertisement tradition in Denmark. It made me think of how these sandwich-board people--who are often illegal immigrants--were financially "sandwiched" between a piece of wood and a hard place." 

Artist Bio
Jacob Fabricius is an independent curator and publisher based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In his exhibitions, Fabricius often utilizes unusual venues and innovative modes of presentation. In 2002, he curated the project Rent-a-Bench, where 36 artists from America and northern Europe did posters for rented commercial-advertisement benches. For Sandwiched (in New York), Fabricius was interested in doing a more hands-on project where there was a direct exchange between the curator (as display case) and the artist and his or her studio work.

Sponsorship
Sandwiched (in New York) was a joint project of The Wrong Gallery and Public Art Fund.

About The Wrong Gallery
Located on 20th Street in Chelsea, The Wrong Gallery is nothing but a glass door with roughly 2.5 square feet of exhibition space behind it. A no-profit, no-budget initiative, The Wrong Gallery was created by artist Maurizio Cattelan, curator Massimiliano Gioni, and editor Ali Subotnick. Please contact thewronggallery@aol.com for further information.

Location
Jacob Fabricius's Sandwiched (in New York) took place along Fulton Mall between Adams Street and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.