Gallery Archive
Anna Neighbor, Andrew Suggs, Linda Yun, Dragana Crnjak, Cecilia Dougherty
EXHIBITION DATES: January 8-31, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 8 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: With Michael Wang, Art and Architecture Critic and Designer, Sunday, January 31 at 3pm
Vox Populi is pleased to announce January's exhibitions. Featured in the galleries are Anna Neighbor, Andrew Suggs, Linda Yun, and Dragana Crnjak. Cecilia Dougherty shows new work in the Video Lounge, and Screening exhibits Valérie Mréjen's Ils Respirents.
Anna Neighbor, Is Was Will Be
Basic concerns about making, keeping and losing rematerialize through a lens of desire, mortality and image.
Andrew Suggs, Comus, or Some Man I Once Knew
In his latest installation, Andrew Suggs considers the possibilities and limitations of transgressive action among a whirl of historic images of deviance. A one-time performance will coincide with the opening night of the exhibition, from 7 to 9pm, and a poetry reading by CA Conrad will commence at 9:30 pm. A series of performances, screenings, and readings by collaborators will unfold over the course of the month. Click here for a schedule.
Linda Yun, Lull
Feeling the weight and historical significance of beautiful works hanging on pristine walls, and the overwhelming sense of confusion sifting through layers of objects, information, imagery, and ways of making, Yun makes do with what she can: a simple room and a desire to let a moment unfold and hover. Embracing the formal and visual, working with ephemeral materials such as light, space, and reflected color, Yun continues her exploration of memory, residue, loss, and impermanence. Emphasis is not placed on the physical but, more importantly, on the gesture of the moment. Lull is Yun's fifth solo exhibition at Vox Populi.
Dragana Crnjak, Dust
Inspired by an idea of village as a metaphor for the unstructured, ever-changing, rhizome-like space in which hierarchy and dominance are questioned, Crnjak explores the process of drawing as a way of open-ended thinking, discovery and invention.
VIDEO LOUNGE
Cecilia Dougherty, The Third Space
The Third Space is a video installation comprised of three pieces: The Third Space, Tetragrammaton, and Supertasking. This project began two years ago when Dougherty began posting her photos online in order to keep an archive of what she looks at and where she goes on a daily basis. The online photographs establish a different way to work in photography regarding notions of framing, location, subject, object, materiality and access, among other things.
These videos are low budget and low-tech, representing a relationship to movement and space that is based on portability, presence, and immediacy. Supertasking and The Third Space were shot using a consumer-grade digital still camera, and Tetragrammaton was shot with a cell phone.
SCREENING
Valérie Mréjen, Ils Respirents
Ils Respirent (They Breathe) by French artist, writer and filmmaker Valérie Mréjen, employs elements of autobiography and a refined cinematic aesthetic. Mréjen continues her exploration of portraiture and human relationships. Eight characters are pictured individually, almost motionless, while their thoughts play out as a voice over, relating off-screen narratives that explore emotional distress through the most quotidian affairs. The work could be considered a formal inversion of popular cinema (where viewers more typically follow action and narrative while being left to conjecture a character’s thoughts and emotions) but retains a heightened sense of drama through production devices such as lighting, scripting, editing/pacing and deadpan performance, through which the characters convey a sense of anxiety, restlessness and dark humor.
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