It’s no coincidence that this exhibition’s title comes from the personal columns. Of the many joys to be found in the personals, the most gratifying is the fully public – albeit euphemised, romanticised and sanitised – glimpse they offer us of the intimate desires of strangers. Likes the Outdoors exercises a similar disruption of public-private distinctions, only this time what gets laid bare are our intimate relations with space.
In keeping with the suburbanity of those personal ads, the space in question here is of course the incomparable ‘outdoors’ of the …
