Laleh Khorramian "I Without End"
Salon 94 Freemans
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The exhibition features an eponymous animation, and a new sculptural work in stained glass.
I Without End (6:20 min) captures an erotic encounter. The couple, carved out of orange peels, is shot in time-lapse animation, capturing an unexpectedly sensual and human drama. The lovers are androgynous, coarsely comical but intensely engaged, their heads skewed in place with pins. Caught somewhere between living and dying, the figures decay rhythmically, until all moisture is gone from the fruit and their movements subside. The soundtrack creates a texture of tactility and friction, and is the sonic parallel of the images. The absurdity of fruit peel as a human metaphor brings two realities together: the physicality of the material world, and the equal force of the inner world of desire, emotion, sex, love, and intimacy. I Without End explores the unrestrained sense of fantasy that intimacy can produce, a universe that is present and real even when that lover/being is no longer physically present.
[Image: Laleh Khorramian “Without End” (2008) still]
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Schedule
from May 30, 2008 to July 12, 2008