Future Holiday | Rachel Debuque

Special Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Working with a team of local dancers and a choreographer, Debuque created a surreal performance and video based on Elsewhere’s cleaning rituals. These rituals involve picking through the dustpans for fragments of collection to preserve the materials for future use at the museum. The performance set elements and the movements of the dancers are based on things found and seen at the museum that have been transformed into a supersaturated world of pigment and pattern.

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Rachel Debuque
Rachel Debuque

Rachel Debuque is currently an Assistant Professor and Foundations Coordinator in the Art department at George Mason University. She has exhibited extensively including, New York, Croatia, and Philadelphia. She was recently awarded to attend the internationally recognized Bemis Center for Contemporary Art’s residency program. Her research spans installation, sculpture, video, and performance. Debuque de-familiarizes space and objects using common decorating design strategies such as pattern, paint, and the arrangement of objects. Her work purposefully plays with two and three-dimensional realms, creating a push/pull in perceptions. Vibrant colors to create directional line patterns that suggest dimensional space and flatten objects with matte paints.

Rachel created Future Holiday during her time at Elsewhere.

Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency
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