Kate Levant
dal 18/10/2012 al 20/11/2012
Segnalato da
18/10/2012
Kate Levant
Zach Feuer Gallery (new location), New York
Closure of Jaw. A series of inscriptions are brailed into the backs of grey slabs stacking and lining the walls of the gallery. Locked beneath the surface of the slabs, mutations emerge in forms of swollen relief.
Zach Feuer Gallery is pleased to present Closure of Jaw, an exhibition of new mixed media work by the
artist Kate Levant.
A series of inscriptions are brailed into the backs of grey slabs stacking and lining the walls of
the gallery. Locked beneath the surface of the slabs, mutations emerge in forms of swollen relief.
Instances of written expression heave speech against their own suffocation within the slabs, yet again
these appear brailed backwards, opposing the legibility of direct frontal read.
The adoption of selected
images and texts, whether lifted scrawls of rage from the pavements of streets or explicit analyzations
of linguistic modes, trace ways language is physically handled, how it is channeled through narcissistic
reservoirs within the bodies of its authors, and is ultimately released. However, a revolving undertow
pursues these inscriptions, swallows them back into the surrounding grey mutation.
Pressure points open scores of order against the coarse resolution of these scarred
renderings, interrupting visual scan across the face of their lengths, yet their codes are unknown.
Diagrammatic indicators are overlaid to restore articulation to the revoked pronouncements, yet
the malfunction of mind to mouth//rerouted from thought through
limbs//comprehending how to carve a logic for flow of impulse and expression through the
musculature of the Body.
Displayed on tabletops throughout the space, sculptural objects present repetitive acts of
grappling with their own substance, a kind of automatic processing through nonlinguistic terms. While
the form of a grip is recapitulated over and over again, the homogenous quality of material through
which these acts occur preconditions an inability to exit the function of their making.
Amidst this field of recessed deliveries * A pair of galvanized gloves appear hovering in neon
hue. Exposure of this distinct picture plane cuts intersections through the coordinates of negated
expression throughout the presentation.
Kate Levant was born in 1983 in Chicago, IL and received a MFA from Yale University in 2010. Her
work was featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Levant currently lives and works in Amsterdam.
Opening: Friday, October 19 , 6-8pm
Zach Feuer Gallery
548 West 22nd Street
Free Admission