'Gardening Leave' is a project by
Dan Rees created specifically for
Arteba, Buenos Aires. The term ´Gardening Leave´, alludes to a certain practive in business where an employee is told they are niether allowed to go to work nor start their new job, instead they have to see the remainder of their contract out at home, or in the garden.
'Gardening Leave' presents a series of new paintings displayed on clothing peg rails and hooks. By hanging the paintings on coat rails Rees refers to ideas of work and production value within painting discourse; the paintings themselves are left in a halfway state, dangling, somewhere on the way to being finished. The clothing reference that also comes with 'a coat of paint' alludes to something close to an admittance of style over substance, like designer clothing flung absentmindedly over furniture as one enters their home.
