Surveying Desire XV: Overtures

This installation at the Overture Center referenced the history of the site as a retail department store (which included a bridal section). One could hear personal ads through the headphones. The center structure was a “fitting room” divided by a curtain screening the opposite side from view, and had identical ear trumpet devices and a little iconic house on each side. Large white curtains were dotted with over 1400 personal ads, while the windows bore decorative signs of the zodiac. The title referred both to the name of the site and the difficulties and commercialization of “making overtures.”