Cybele Lyle: Boxed Out

Curator. San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries: Grove St. Window Installation Site. January - April, 2014

“We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality,” are just a few of the words by influential Queer Studies scholar José Esteban Muñoz that resonate with San Francisco-based artist Cybele Lyle. In her latest installation, Boxed Out presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Galleries, the artist uses images, sculpture, light and projection to break apart the traditional boundaries of interior and exterior space to create a new, third space, for potentiality.

Boxed Out combines still images and video captured during her daily life with built architectural structures that consider the physical installation space as well as the vantage point of passersby. Lyle’s interest lies in the mutability of architecture and the possibilities of taking apart and inverting the walls and natural environment that surround her to open up the constructs in which she lives.

Boxed Out was developed in part during the artist’s recent fellowship residency at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley.