Lyra Abueg Garcellano and Kwan Sheung Chi "Specific Gravity"
Location One
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Two new canvases and several collages, completed by Lyra Abueg Garcellano during her residency at Location One, are the centerpieces of Specific Gravity on view in Location One's Project Room through June 12. Continuing her exploration of fallen bodies (sleeping? dreaming?), the large scale works depict figures splayed on the ground, lush brushstrokes melding the backdrops with the drapery of the figures' clothing. A skewed bird's eye view renders foreground and background practically indistinguishable, making it unclear whether the bodies have actually fallen or are actually disembodied arms and legs floating toward the viewer.
Kwan Sheung Chi is obsessed with suicide–at least with feigning his own, repeatedly–in blackly humorous depictions that are clearly designed to fail. The pseudo snuff films that comprise "Plan A-Z to End My Life" are a series of grainy black and white, gorgeously shot videos chronicling alphabetically-organized, half-hearted attempts by the artist to off himself. That the series consists of more than one "plan" presupposes its failure, which either ironically reaffirms life or mocks death–but more likely points to some liminal (and dare we suggest: non-ironic?) position between the two.
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Schedule
from May 21, 2010 to June 05, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-05-20 from 18:00 to 20:00