Leah Raintree "Operable Chambers and Other Biological Fictions"
Foley Gallery
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The title of Raintree’s exhibition, Operable Chambers and Other Biological Fictions, is sampled from Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Circular Ruins,” in which Borges’ protagonist imagines and builds a man through a sequence of manic dreams. In exact anatomical detail, the dreamer’s creation appears from the inside out, his complex systems functioning as they materialize. At once, this ‘Adam’ of dreams is both a product of Borges and his nighttime visionary; their empirical knowledge of man and the wielding of their imaginations.
This is first New York solo exhibition of ink on paper drawings by artist Leah Raintree.
Works included in this exhibition are part of an ongoing investigation for Raintree considering systems of the human body and its pervasive structural complexity. Three series dominate the show: Stalls and Passages, Synapse and Sympathies and Rods and Spheres. Each can be viewed as an individual system taken out of context for the purpose of study and classification. The three series culminate in the exhibition’s central work, Excerpts from the Incredible Machine, where the taxonomy of these biological systems twist, overlap and operate as a whole.
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from January 21, 2009 to March 07, 2009