In Miranda July’s All Fours, the protagonist sets out to drive cross-country from Los Angeles to New York. But 20 minutes in, she veers off the freeway, checks into a motel, and stays for over two weeks. That hotel room becomes a world of its own: a space she decorates with things like a new mattress and pink wallpaper, and a place where she explores a new version of herself. That room is now the focus of a site-specific installation. Curated by the art advisor Wendy Cromwell to coincide with the Aspen Art Fair, the exhibition transforms a hotel bedroom into an intimate retreat for visitors and a dreamscape for its imaginary inhabitant. Cromwell has filled the space with contemporary art and design objects—Jim Mangan’s photographs of cowboys, for instance, Meegan Barnes’s ceramics, Rob Davis’s painting of a quilt. The installation’s title nods to Virginia Woolf’s landmark 1929 essay, A Room of One’s Own, which asserts that a woman needs her own space and money to create. In that sense, July picks up where Woolf left off. —Jeanne Malle
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