"The Lack of Desire"
BAC Gallery
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The Lack of Desire seeks to visually represent, from a side glance, what their desires intimate: the universal lack existing in the multiple recesses of their psyche from which their fleeting and never-ending desire springs. The artworks chosen for this exhibition offers the viewer a way to be present with lack rather than escape into the endless feedback loop of desire.
In many ways, human beings desire to keep desire from being fulfilled. Without it, they would be empty, their-selves would disappear. They hunt and create objects that articulate desire, but simultaneously point to its inherent lack. In fact, lack is revealed as the positive object and desire becomes a nebulous abstraction.
How do they experience this lack? Desire drives narrative. They spin our tale around desire. Lack is the absence of this narrative and reads as a “block,” a loss of narrative and direction. This is manifest in an individual viewed from behind or the smoke of an ambiguous fire. It is disclosed in the incomprehensible blankness of a doll, inanimate and pre-language.
Media
Schedule
from January 17, 2008 to April 11, 2008
Artist(s)
Carey Denniston, Gary Heller, Joelle Jensen, Carl Gunhouse, Joseph Sahadi et al.