Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Caressing the Circle
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bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s seventh solo exhibition, presented in tandem with the artist’s solo display at The Armory Show.
Prenez un cercle, caressez-le, il deviendra vicieux !
(Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.)
–Eugène Ionesco
Aquí comienza el campo inexplorado
Redondo a causa de los ojos que lo miran
(Here begins the unexplored territory
Round on account of the eyes that behold it)
–Vicente Huidobro
How to orient in these times? How to position ourselves — individually, yet always in relation to one another — amid the moment’s perpetually shifting terrains? When the topologies of our lives — the contours of where and how and with whom we exist — are flattened into extractable packets of data and reduced to nothing more than coordinates upon some grid, what becomes a horizon? “Here,” as Huidobro writes, “begins the unexplored territory.”
"Caressing the Circle" roams the perimeter of such questions, at moments traversing them, negotiating a singular throughline, and, at others, tacking away toward uncharted ground. Through computer sensors and cameras in the round, the works on view have a panoramic experience of the public, not the other way around. The exhibition’s five artworks experiment with co-presence, modes of detection, and the interplay of translucency and transparency. Here, bodies and their shadows, architectures and their atmospherics all merge and move together in fluid dynamics. Presence generates perspective; or, as Duchamp put it, “The spectator makes the picture.” The sense of partiality permeates each piece, with a built-in instability that results in a transitional presence, always becoming something else.
–Atelier Lozano-Hemmer
Read the full press release on the exhibition website, linked above.
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