Selections
dal 31/5/2000 al 24/6/2000
Segnalato da
31/5/2000
Selections
LFL Gallery, New York
Selections is an exhibition curated for LFL Gallery by Dean Daderko and
includes works by Allora & Calzadilla, Karin Campbell, Anoka Faruqee and
Andrea Geyer.
Allora & Calzadilla's Seeing Otherwise is a series of digitally-altered
photographs of
people looking at the ocean in which the line of the sun¹s reflection in the
water has been
moved to correspond to one individual's line of sight. Under normal
circumstances, this
reflected line would connect to the viewer; in this case, to the point of
view of the camera.
Allora & Calzadilla's alterations question the irreconcilability of
individual points of view
within shared experience. Concurrent exhibitions of their work are on view
at El Museo del
Barrio and PARLOUR PROJECTS.
Karin Campbell's photographs "... the doctor said she could eat only
candy..." document a performance for the camera where desire is becoming
landscape. A body dissolves into a candy castle and a candy castle tower
appears to grow out of a breast. This new work continues Campbell¹s interest
in manifestations of thoughts, feelings and emotions as they move from an
interior place, creating an exterior one.
Anoka Faruqee's Mustard Twins is a work consisting of two identically
painted canvases. Mustard-colored gradations of small interlocking asterisks
cover two differently colored grounds, one ochre and one green. The asterisks
reference both Islamic tile work designs and digital pixels. These works are
not mere diptychs: their meaning ultimately resides in their sameness as well
as in their complementary nature. Faruqee's twin paintings exist only in
relation to one another.
Andrea Geyer's The Rocky Road consists of three C-prints, each one an image
of an open book placed on a table, and its reflection in a mirror above. The
book is opened to the essay The Rocky Road to Femininity. In The Rocky Road,
Geyer explores the discourse of reality and reflection in the context of
gender, and engages a dialogue about how information is constructed, perceived
and used. The Rocky Road is part of a larger body of work titled Information
Upon Request which is on view concurrently at the Whitney Independent Study
Program, 384 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York. For information, please call (212)
431-1739.
Dean Daderko is a curator and the coordinator of PARLOUR PROJECTS, an
exhibition space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn which features monthly solo shows.
To reach PARLOUR PROJECTS call (917) 723-8626.
Reception: Thursday, 1 June, 6-8 PM
LFL Gallery
531 W. 26th St., 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11-6
lflgallery@yahoo.com