"Catherine Wagner is never not doing something interesting, it seems, whether it's photographing hidden corners of Oakland's Mills College Art Museum for 2018's Archeology in Reverse series or using film canisters from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive's to recontextualize the history of movies in 2024's Moving Pictures. Mostly she works behind the camera, which I guess you'd expect from a photographer."
"With Blue Reverie, Wagner is doing what you expect from the name by working mostly in cerulean hues. But she will surprise you in the way she does it. It's not just blue paintings and sculptures-there are small hidden projectors that ensconce blue moons in the corners. The lightbulbs in the lamps have been replaced by blue ones. The dining room table has a blue light under it, making the dark wood glow."
Wagner stages Blue Reverie at David Ireland’s house, combining her photography with Ireland’s remaining work to create an immersive conversation across mediums. Architecture functions as both literal container and metaphor for constructed identities. Photographs serve as scaffolding, constructions, and arranged acts rather than documentary records. The exhibition centers on cerulean hues deployed through paint, blue bulbs, filtered windows, under-table lighting, blue masking-tape drawings, and hidden projectors that cast blue moons into corners. Installations incorporate projection, sound, sculpture, and live performance, activating domestic spaces and recontextualizing museum-held objects alongside site-specific interventions.
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