Ticklish Object at Heliopolis
Judith Linhares
Jeff Grant
Zoe Sheehan Saldaña
December 6th, 2013 - January 5th, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, December 6th 6-9PM
Curated by Georgia Elrod, Sarada Rauch and Barıs Gokturk
Think of a snap shot, capturing the point right after the peak where things are just starting to decompose. As a freeze frame it is an image of something that is in its nature, moving. Still life, in its traditional painterly framework, functions as such. A seemingly conservative genre that pioneered the transformation of the commodified object to the aesthetic one in the Dutch tradition, it paradoxically lead to a few revolutions in 20th Century. In the contemporary setting a collection of objects is overly indexable. The works in Ticklish Object revolve around a transient idea of reconfiguring the object between still life and archeological artifact.
The artists in this show deal with contemporary reverberations of still life, navigating this web of indexing objects by investigating object-hood and re-presentation. Each of the separate objects points away from the collection it is grouped with toward other meaning. The subtleties and vibrations of arrangement can create multiple layers and simultaneously active and quiet readings. These works show us the cultural coronations of artist-as-archeologist, the manipulative gaze of the maker, and the contemporary artist as hunter-gatherer.
Heliopolis
154 Huron St.
Brooklyn, NY
www.suncityprojectspace.com
Jeff Grant
Zoe Sheehan Saldaña
December 6th, 2013 - January 5th, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, December 6th 6-9PM
Curated by Georgia Elrod, Sarada Rauch and Barıs Gokturk
Think of a snap shot, capturing the point right after the peak where things are just starting to decompose. As a freeze frame it is an image of something that is in its nature, moving. Still life, in its traditional painterly framework, functions as such. A seemingly conservative genre that pioneered the transformation of the commodified object to the aesthetic one in the Dutch tradition, it paradoxically lead to a few revolutions in 20th Century. In the contemporary setting a collection of objects is overly indexable. The works in Ticklish Object revolve around a transient idea of reconfiguring the object between still life and archeological artifact.
The artists in this show deal with contemporary reverberations of still life, navigating this web of indexing objects by investigating object-hood and re-presentation. Each of the separate objects points away from the collection it is grouped with toward other meaning. The subtleties and vibrations of arrangement can create multiple layers and simultaneously active and quiet readings. These works show us the cultural coronations of artist-as-archeologist, the manipulative gaze of the maker, and the contemporary artist as hunter-gatherer.
Heliopolis
154 Huron St.
Brooklyn, NY
www.suncityprojectspace.com
All images copyright Georgia Elrod 2023