During August 2015, Ibid. Los Angeles hosts a project inviting artists to exhibit and create new works. The event broadens a research-based initiative that monitors the process of dismantling the gallery’s current premises. Tree House Down assesses the role of a gallery in the context of a rapidly growing creative community, working just ahead of property developers’ investment interests. In 2010, Amir Mogharabi conceived Matériel Perdu, a project staged with fellow artists to inaugurate a new Ibid. venue in East London. Using only materials found on site left by the previous tenant, Matériel Perdu defined a role for the gallery at a particular location and time. Similarly, demographic and topographical constraints in Tree House Down become dimensions in the ongoing development of a context imbued with material possibilities. Where means are no longer understood as ends,

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