Airan Kang "Light Reading"
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
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Kangs artistic lexis centers on book-shaped sculptures fashioned out of resin and LEDs. For nearly a decade she has been both personifying and objectifying discourse and our concepts of knowledge by simulating libraries, bookstores, and reading rooms. Made with LED devices that emit colored lights programmed to continually change in brightness, hue and intensity, each book in this exhibition conflates material and ephemeral depictions of knowledge to realize the pluralistic spaces of our imagination.
For this exhibition, Airan Kang furthers her "digital Book Project". This virtual world was created as an homeage to specific books that are her current source of inspiration. Kang traveled around the world to visit and photograph different bookstores and famous libraries in order to then recreate each environment as digitized version of the original simulacra. The familiarity of there places gives Kangs lurid universe an unexpected and sublime sense of organic beauty.
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Schedule
from September 17, 2010 to October 16, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-16 from 18:00 to 20:00