Ohad Meromi "Stand Like a Sculpture"
Harris Lieberman
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Harris Lieberman presents "Stand Like a Sculpture", Ohad Meromi’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In his videos, sculptures and installations, Meromi takes the disintegration of high modernism as a base for explorations into the open-ended relationships between performance, work, community and architecture.
In Stand Like a Sculpture, Meromi continues to address a tradition that understood modernist aesthetics as inherently bound to the project of social change, whether in the early Soviet Union or in the Israeli Kibbutz. Aware of the oppressive historical realities of communism’s failed promise, Meromi proposes the white box as a site in which it might still be possible to revisit this promise’s pathos and negotiate its hopeful and emancipatory potential. Large in scale, but keeping monumentality at bay, the work emphasizes a tentative mode of placement in the space and a maquette-like material language.
The works in Stand Like a Sculpture comprise an immersive, hand-built landscape that engages with the audience’s sense of scale and situation. The installation suggests an unfinished narrative or a play in intermission, inviting the audience to reactivate it through dialogue and movement, lending the work its completion.
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Schedule
from November 08, 2011 to December 17, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-11-08 from 18:00 to 20:00