December 3rd, - January 7th, Balancing in between what is close, personal, private, informal, unspoken and dear is where we find ourselves most intimate.
Intimate Things is a gentle meditation on those unfolding moments and the objects that fill their void. This show brings together work which contemplates the everyday with its ascending and descending arch of actions, moments which can break us apart and then always gesture us forward.
Multi-layered images open up a space for humor in the artwork as well as sculptural space inside of a flat plane. His objects engage with, through forms of commercial technology, speculative animation of inanimate things destined to outlive us.
Hiroshi Clark presents photographic works of crushed energy drink cans captured against the familiar darkness of rough asphalt meditating on the urban space and the everyday material that double as forces of resistance against the quotidian. Part autobiographical, these quiet and tacit images unpack moments from the past manifesting into the future their worth as precious objects.
Epoxied clothing sculptures hang in line amplifying the absence of the human body and its productive power transfigured into the commodity form. This work sets out to navigate the tensions between race and class and the contradiction and alignments between a historical event of the 19th century and the events of our present as people from the former colonies now seek refuge in the metropole.
