Closed Down Clubs, French Bistro

This solitary door comes from Fiona Connor’s series of sculptural documents titled 'Closed Down Clubs', 2017–18. Charting a period of change in her local area of Los Angeles when a cluster of iconic businesses and venues closed, Connor’s series records the city on the precipice of change. As a symbolic entranceway, the door is a nostalgic and poignant reminder of how pieces of a city and its architecture are in flux, with only memory left to bind them. Operating as a kind of documentary, Connor’s sculptures reproduce the original doors in 1:1 scale, offering a three-dimensional relationship with their original site, albeit in the gallery space.

This meticulous – almost fanatical – modelling of an architectural remnant has been a consistent theme in Connor’s work over the last decade. Here, it’s not just the façade or doorway which Connor replicates, but all the marks of time – the dirt, wear and tear, ephemera, errors and markings – visible in its current condition.

– Natasha Conland, Senior Curator, Global Contemporary Art, 2023

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