Evening Shadow
Ye Cheng, Cathleen Clarke, Jeane Cohen, MC Escher, Dan Herschlein, Ho Jae Kim, Yayoi Kusama, Scott Laufer, Yeni Mao, Catalina Ouyang, Justin Ortiz, Jacopo Pagin, Astra Huimeng Wang, Guimi You
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Press Release
If the course of the day were to be divided into intervals based on the psychic energy with which they are charged, the transition between night and day would emerge as the most concentrated period filled with feelings of ambivalence and haze. The quality of light that defines this lingering first hour after the sun descends corresponds to a specific sensation but a vagueness of thought. A sense of anxiety attaches itself to the desires one might pursue, if only their satisfaction could be guaranteed in advance. The day having just passed and night not yet formed, everything takes on an unresolved character. Time is compressed. The barrier between consciousness and the unconscious begins to dissolve. A slight paranoia colors the scene, reflecting the possibilities lost within each moment that passes, more apparent now that their passing coincides with the looming arrival of nightfall. The in-betweenness of dusk suggests the past and all of the future. History is suspended in the dimly lit sky.
Make Room is pleased to announce Evening Shadow, an exhibition that delves into those things that appear on the edge of awareness, where, not fully formed, they reveal something chimerical about the process of thought and its relationship to the outer world: at a certain point, the mind, too, becomes an object that we confront. This group of work by Cathleen Clarke, Ye Cheng, Jeane Cohen, M.C. Escher, Dan Herschlein, Ho Jae Kim, Yayoi Kusama, Scott Laufer, Yeni Mao, Justin Ortiz, Catalina Ouyang, Jacopo Pagin, Astra Huimeng Wang, and Guimi You explores dusk as a metaphor for both history and consciousness while also testing the power of its medium to transform the substance of objects and feelings.
Images courtesy of the artists and Make Room, Los Angeles.
About the Artists
Yeni MaoYeni Mao's (b. 1971, Canada) sculptures possess a captivating narrative undertone, often drawing from the artist's transnational background. Themes of displacement, migration, fragmented and sexualized bodies, and their connection to the …
Read full biography →Catalina OuyangCatalina Ouyang (b. 1993, Chicago) lives and works in New York. Ouyang's work spans sculpture, video, installation, performance, and mixed media, situated in a framework of revisionist storytelling that resists essentialist metrics for …
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Jacopo PaginMaking art is an exercise of freedom that allows me to be myself beyond myself. There is no other purpose. I hope to be able to lead viewers to get lost in unexpected places, disinterestedly outside any materialistic or deterministic …
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Astra Huimeng WangAstra Huimeng Wang creates events and circumstances to study the manufacture of truth and identities, collaborating extensively with orchestras, poets, actors, and sometimes strangers. In her diverse practice across media, 21 people …
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Guimi You"Nature is fluid and constantly evolving, so I don't believe there is a need to portray them as static and immovable. As a result, this perception of nature has led me to develop a style of painting that may appear dream-like to the …
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