In order to avoid a new gallery shape over the borders of the piston's cross section, several constraints need to be satisfied in the optimization.
Flat plaster sculptures lean against the gallery walls shaped like huge pieces of torn paper.
Within a couple of years of one another, Asher and O'Doherty uniquely challenged the spatial context of the white-walled gallery in shaping our understanding of art given the effect it had on the relationship established between the viewing subject and the viewed object.
The re-hang has coincided with the near completion of a long-term refurbishment of the building (the front entrance won't reopen until November) which allows the gallery to be shaped into an outer ring of 29 galleries – containing the permanent collection – and eight inner areas, focusing on individual artists, works or subjects, that will be changed every spring and autumn.
Some restrictions, like gallery hours, are shaped by local regulations that also restrict the number of weekly visitors.
And galleries are shape-shifting too.
London's position in this global market depends on three things: a concentration of wealth and of the people who look after it, plenty of artists and galleries to shape taste, and a long and distinguished history as a centre for art exchange.
Project organizer Ingrid Rojas Contreras tells The Creators Project how 100 Days Action came about and what it seeks to achieve: "At the inception of 100 Days, we planned to do takeovers of public spaces, host some events with galleries, and shape our counternarrative online".
Its rough, angular concrete forms and oddly shaped galleries are awkward settings for art.
But stroll through its several floors of quirkily shaped galleries to see the Louis Vuitton art collection and ennui creeps on you.
The acclaim propelled McGee to found Gallery Seven, which has shaped the careers of Detroit's emerging black artists.
