This exhibition continues a series in which Gordon Hall creates replicas of found, one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture. The replicas refer to objects Hall encounters by chance and feels a magnetic attraction to; the artist investigates the furniture physically through remaking. The Number of Inches Between Them doubles a geometric stone bench discovered in a friend’s backyard in New Jersey. The replication is done twice: first as eight, cast concrete interlocking panels that are assembled as a twin of the bench, and second as the same set of eight concrete panels presented disassembled, leaning against the gallery walls. All aspects of the object—its design, feel, material, history, and the narrative of its maker—become implicated in the ways Hall reanimates it in a second life as sculpture. A movement piece instigated by and incorporating the bench is performed by Hall and a group of Boston-based performers. The sculpture is offered as an architectural body, assembled and disassembled, and brought into proximity with human bodies at various stages of vulnerability and transition.

Gordon Hall has performed and exhibited at the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018); the Wysing Arts Centre, London (2017); Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia (2016); The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2014); and SculptureCenter, Long Island City (2012).