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Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)

By Matthew Hague
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Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)

Walking from space to space at the Gladstone’s annual Come Up to My Room event (where the hotel surrenders its accommodations to be reimagined by a clutch of designers) is a bit like taking an absurd, down-the-rabbit-hole-type journey though the minds of several artsy archetypes. There’s the minimalist, who works with little more than white Styrofoam and LED lights; the maximalist, whose room is so packed with hundreds of abstract, laser-cut feathers it’s pretty well impossible to enter; the Parkdale hipster, whose half-shorn hair and acid-wash jeggings are more interesting than the art itself; and the conceptualist, whose work is likely very, very deep but will be likely be lost on everyone without a PhD in philosophy. That said, the show, which is on until this Sunday, is exuberantly creative, spectacularly strange, and well worth a visit. Our six favourite pieces after the jump.

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Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)
Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)
Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)
Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)
Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)
Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)
Our six favourite pieces from Come Up to My Room 2012 (including one we had to get on our hands and knees to see)

(Image: Come Up To My Room, Karolyne Ellacott)

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