“Who Refused to Participate” Exhibition
Tina Kim Gallery
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Tina Kim Gallery presents House for the Inhabitant Who Refused to Participate, an exhibition of modern and contemporary art and design curated by New York / Los Angeles-based architecture and interior design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero (CHH).
The exhibition brings together works by Louise Bourgeois, Heidi Bucher, Sam Chermayeff, John Hejduk, Camille Henrot, James Hong, Ficus Interfaith, Anne Libby, Mathieu Matégot, Emma McCormick Goodhart, Pietro Melandri, Luke O’Halloran, Eli Ping, Steph Shiu, Sophie Stone, Kim Tschang-Yeul, and Luc Tuymans.
The title “House for the Inhabitant Who Refused to Participate” is an homage to a project of the same name by the architect John Hejduk, a masterpiece of what he called “the architecture of pessimism.” The house is part of a trilogy of structures illustrating his proposition that humanity is trapped in the compressed, flattened realm of the moment—a counter to the early Modernists’ optimistic obsession with dynamism and the future. The pieces presented in the show partake in this exploration of the spatial quality of a singular instant. Long shadows, rendered in two tones of felt, stretch unchanging across the floor of the room.
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Schedule
from December 16, 2022 to January 21, 2023
Opening Reception on 2022-12-16 from 18:00 to 20:00
featuring performances by artists from the American Modern Opera Company artists, Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor, and Coleman Itzkoff, cellist, 6:30 and 7:30 pm