HAUNT: Particulars relating to some unaccountable noises in the house
A solo exhibition featuring Christine McDonald.
Welcome to my apartment - This body of work engages the wooden floor as both medium and mediator, situating the apartment not merely as private architecture, but as porous and sonorous sites of relationally. The creaks and groans of floorboards function as an acoustic index — a material trace that evidences contact, stress, and habitation. These sounds destabilize domesticity’s presumed enclosure, reminding us that “home” is co-constructed through the permeability of infrastructures and the audibility of neighboring lives. In this sense, the floor articulates a shared, involuntary intimacy: our movements circulate across surfaces, resounding as both presence and interruption.
The rubbings translate this acoustic-spatial condition into a visual archive. By pressing graphite against the fibrous lines of the floor, the work captures a double displacement: the vertical forest reoriented into horizontal plank, and the horizontal surface reinscribed as cascading sheets along the gallery walls. This gesture reanimates the floor as a suspended forest, a spectral ecology wherein the labor of bearing weight is transformed into an aesthetic of line, repetition, and descent. Tim Ingold has argued that materials are not inert but “storied”, carrying histories of growth and use; the rubbings operate precisely in this register, treating the floor as both witness and collaborator.
The opening reception of this show was on December 13th, 2025 from 6-9pm with a performance at 7:30pm. There was also be an advanced preview of the show on December 6th, 2025 from 5-7pm. A performance by Denver Nuckolls & Zachary McDonald accompanied the opening reception of this exhibition.
About the Artists:
Christine McDonald (Brooklyn, NY)
Christine McDonald (Brooklyn, NY) is a research-based open format artist who considers the fates of everyday ultra-specific materials and locations. Working across a wide variety of sculptural and digital mediums, Christine interprets collective histories and her own temporality by investigating human, industrial, and environmental systems. Artworks are installed or digitally published as individual project vignettes that sometimes self-destruct. Her website acts as an archive and further reading. The vinyl cast of her vehicle is an exercise in decay-endurence; the cast-material is designed to remain as a protective skin, much like a car can be a protective shell for a human. However, Christine collaborates with the material’s instability by meticulously removing the car, leaving only a skin-like shell that is inflated until it ruptures and caves in.
Previously a 2025 Artist-in-Residence at Stove Works [Chattanooga, TN] and 2021 recipient of the John Hartell Award for Art, Christine’s work has been exhibited by: Ortega y Gasset Projects [Brooklyn, NY], Atlantic Gallery [New York, NY], AUTOMAT Collective [Philadelphia, PA], The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art & Olive Tjaden Gallery [Cornell University; Ithaca, NY], Moore College of Art and Design [Philadelphia, PA], Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery [Philadelphia, PA].
About The Information Space:
The Information Space (Info) is an artist-run gallery and event space in Port Richmond Philadelphia. Started in 2019, we provide a platform for emerging and established artists to showcase their work in a supportive environment. Always encouraging artists to blur the line between studio and gallery, challenge the conventional, and push the boundaries of their creativity. We believe that experimentation finds new depths of intrigue within the structured confines of a gallery space, and it is our mission to celebrate and champion such innovative expressions.