Deinstalling Patrick Cruz’s solo exhibition – Quarantine of Difference was defiantly the toughest task I encountered. Patrick graffitied texts onto the gallery walls, and these texts were taken from different essays that critique gentrification. This fragmented texts emphasize a destabilizing phenomenon through gentrification. They evoke anxious and skepticism towards modernization. There are several geometric abstraction paintings on the floor that can be read as landscape.

On the last day of Patrick’s exhibition, we took the role of deinstalling all the works and repaint the wall white agin. With previous experience of packaging works, it wasn’t challenge for me to bubble wrap all the paintings on the floor with the help from a volunteer. However, when it comes to painting the wall, I was not really sure how to start it. I dipped roller in the white paint then painted the wall, but and it wasn’t enough coverage the graffiti. We painted the wall all over the gallery and waited for it to dry. Then painted another layer, until 6 coats of paints, the graffiti still can be see-through. We arrived at WAAP at 5 pm, by then time we decided to leave was already 10 pm. Working with Wil and Jeffrey was so much fun, we were making jokes and playing music while working. It made me feel like it was hanging out with friends instead of working. We were not satisfied with the result because the wall was still a bit messy with the see-through texts, Jeffrey decided to come back and help the next day.

Artist Patrick Cruz: http://www.patrickcruz.org

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