The work of Ethan Hayes-Chute suggests potential living situations based on his concepts of self-sufficiency, self-preservation and self-exclusion in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculptures and the artist book. For this exhibition at Entrée, he takes his vision to a life-sized scale, creating a fully-immersive cabin built from found and reclaimed materials, outfitted with recycled and improvised furnishings, as well as day-to-day ephemera and artifacts. The public is encouraged to enter and examine this comprehensive and elaborate example of habitation.

According to the artist, Make/Shifted Cabin "refers to the handmade in general, the editing process that naturally occurs with such an ad-hoc creation, as well as the somewhat rudimentary or ramshackle construction, as well as the idea of a cabin transplanted from it's natural habitat to another, as well as the lifestyle adjustments required to produce such an object."

Ethan Hayes-Chute was born and raised in Freeport, Maine, USA. He lives and works in Berlin and is currently a resident at The Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen. Hayes-Chute has a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2004) and was named the Maine Arts Commission's Visual Arts Fellow for 2011. He can often be found exploring dumps and scrapyards or walking the streets perusing second hand shops for potential objects with which to populate his constructions.

www.ethanhc.com

The exhibition is made possible with support from Arts Council Norway and Bergen Municipality`s art & culture department.

Funded also in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

This exhibition is made in collaboration with The Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen.

Ethan Hayes-Chutes Make/Shifted Cabin

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