"Institute of N is a homestead for those with nowhere else to go. All rooms are to be found in recesses of the exterior walls, as thresholds. To go home is to be unable to cross the threshold, but to rest happily at its edges."
This quote is from the notes of British artist, writer and publisher Becky Beasley (b. 1975) on the Institute of N, her recent and ongoing project that she will present in the Bakery. Started with a photograph that Beasley took of a detail of the sign on a building, Institute of N consists of many manifestations: N Notes, N Things, N Blvd., N Movie, N Novel, published and presented in different stages in different places. Mainly using photography as her visual medium, Beasley addresses the question of time: what is worth photographing, what should be remembered in the future? Her answer lies in the recesses of the exterior walls, in the thresholds. By choosing the unexpected, undervalued and overlooked, she questions the value of the 'objective', obsessive archiving of our contemporary society in an attempt to fight amnesia. Combining a documentary look with fictional writing, Beasley succeeds in making the viewer pause and, among other things, reflect upon our mechanism of memory. For the opening Beasley has invited British artist Robert Ellis to read from the N Novel.
