Oscar Tuazon connects the Garage Top to its role as a support building of the Mackey Apartments. In his practice, he consistently makes sculpture from architectural elements, creating new conceptual spaces and focusing attention on the spaces we inhabit daily but generally overlook.

Working in wood, metal, concrete and stone, Tuazon references recent art history, including the work of Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark. For the exhibition, Tuazon recreates elements of an apartment – cabinets, countertops – in a sculpture that will both accentuate the gallery space and point out its connection to the adjacent domestic spaces.

Andreas Fogarasi uses forms of display that are reminiscent of minimalism and conceptual art to explore questions of space and representation. In his practice, he analyses the aesthetization and economization of urban space and the role of architecture and the cultural field in contemporary society.

For “Black Earth”, he taps into the Garage Top’s dual role as a gallery and garage with North American International Auto Show. The installation features an array of mirrored, freestanding V-shaped structures each bearing a photograph depicting the dismantling of the massive trade fair in Detroit. Capturing aspects of the process only, the images form an intricate network of associations, serving as a metaphor for the collapse of the auto industry, while also holding out hope for its renewal.