“An Aesthetics of Slowness” Exhibition
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
This event has ended.
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs announces the continuation of its program of independently-curated exhibitions: An Aesthetics of Slowness, curated by Chương-Đài Võ. A color brochure with an essay by the curator has been published to accompany the exhibition.
An Aesthetics of Slowness proposes a seeming contradiction of what it means to be current in a world of intense, global circulations. The paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures in this exhibition are about the uncertainty of physical experiences and perceptions, and extend to the viewer an invitation to look, wait, and look again. The exhibition offers works that require time-from the artist in the production and from the viewer in the reception.
The exhibition comprises eight projects from artists Ashley Billingsley, Sandy de Lissovoy, Chris Freeman, Margaret Honda, Paul Qaysi, Frédéric Sanchez, Jeannie Simms, and Brian Wills. Existing ambiguously between photography, drawing, painting and sculpture, these works disrupt the conventions of genre and media -somewhere between presence and absence, visibility and invisibility-and blur the delineations of frame and surface; the body’s location in space and time; and our understandings of perception as subject, object and process. They require a viewer who moves around and looks from various positions. They remind us that perception is a continual process, a contemplation that probes beyond the surface of the legible. In their opacity and seeming transparency, the projects do not offer easily discernable representations, but instead focus our perception on the process of looking and seeing.
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Schedule
from January 18, 2015 to March 29, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-18 from 14:00 to 17:00