Alexandra Bischoff
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Selected Projects
    • Attempts at Preservation
    • beholden
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • homesick
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
    • shelving
  • Partial Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Selected Projects
    • Attempts at Preservation
    • beholden
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • homesick
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
    • shelving
  • Partial Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum
"shelving" was exhibited and performed at the Penticton and District Community Arts Council (BC) from May 10 til August 3, 2025.
Responding to the prompt “Reflections on Heritage,” I performed some simple, transformative gestures on everyday objects and small artworks.

In an installation and performance titled “shelving” that includes these objects, I’m looking at the more peculiar, intangible qualities of inheritance. Especially within a working-class context—where inheritance does not necessarily correspond with endowment or curios of high monetary value—a sentimentality and specificity in character often inform inherited properties. These come together to inform a kind of familial culture or sensibility.
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Selected Projects
    • Attempts at Preservation
    • beholden
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • homesick
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
    • shelving
  • Partial Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum