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Continues thru Mar 11: "Building as Everydayness" Antonia Carrara, Chloé Dugit-Gros, Raphaël Grisey, Thomas Klimowski, Julia Rometti & Victor Costales Scaramouche, 52 Orchard St., NYC a group show of artists living and working in Paris. Each of the artists utilizes architecture and the built environment as a starting point for exploring Modernist icons, often through the lens of critical theory. Working with a variety of media including sculpture, collage, video, and installation, the artists explore everydayness as developed by philosopher Michel de Certeau in The Practice of Everyday Life (1980). In his writings, de Certeau outlined the ways individuals navigate the world around them through the most ordinary of means, including reading, walking, cooking, and talking. For de Certeau, the smallest practices can allow individuals to become active participants through "an art of manipulating and enjoying" everyday life. The exhibition focuses on everydayness as a conceptual tool to reconsider architecture and Modernist icons, away from utopian roots and with a practical perspective in the present-day, as buildings are constantly rethought and adapted by the individuals who inhabit them.