Josh Shaddock "Look the Other Way"

Team Gallery

poster for Josh Shaddock "Look the Other Way"

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Gallery-C, an autonomous project space that exists within the walls of Team Gallery, presents an exhibition of new works by New York based artist Josh Shaddock.

The works in 'Look the Other Way' have in common the subject of sight and seeing, and as the title implies, share a more specific concern with the discomforts and transformations attendant to looking at, and being looked at by, others. They also share as material the unnoticed and seemingly insignificant (whether through obscurity or ubiquity).

In 'The Look', a press photograph of Jean-Paul Sartre has been retouched to correct the orientation of Sartre's badly wall-eyed (and blind) right eye, producing a stare that would have been both physiologically impossible and philosophically problematic for Sartre. With 'IS/SI' the viewer is confronted with his or her own image and gaze in the form of a row of mirrors whose proportions and colors are made to match the complete run of the journal Internationale Situationniste. In contrast to the somewhat arcane origins of the above works, other works in the exhibition are derived from common clichés. Expressions such as "Looking at life through rose-colored glasses" or "Like watching paint dry" are used as starting points and then extended or misused, generating new relations to their origins and accepted uses.

The invisibility shared by the ordinary and obscure is a preoccupation in Shaddock's work. Through this he considers everyday objects and language, popular culture, image production, etc. to produce work that, while formally diverse, shares the humor, confusion, and delight of being shown something for the first time (again).
Selected by Alex Logsdail.

[Image: Josh Shaddock "The Look" (2009) C-print, 36 x 26 in.]

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Schedule

from February 19, 2009 to March 28, 2009

Artist(s)

Josh Shaddock

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