The Studio #1: Charlotte Lagro

In The Fifth Gate Lagro exhibits a construction of traffic signal poles as a fence with four passages through which the visitor can move freely. With the poles removed from their usual function and context, this palisade has a paradoxical form. It is a frame and an object in one, physically present and yet immaterial. Relieved of their usual task and revalued. With these kinds of ambiguous, hard-to-fathom images, Lagro speaks directly to the viewer's own associative powers.