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Narratives have the capacity to change our perceptions and embodied experiences, even as they unfold in different forms—across the pages of a book, on stage in a theater, in the space of the gallery, or out in the world. In this exhibition by Covey Gong and Monique Mouton, prismatic artifacts illuminate the ever-shifting nature of the stories that mirror our reality.
Mouton’s washes of color, brushstrokes, and tears of paper suggest dualities: between the abstract and concrete, image and non image, being and nonbeing. One wonders whether the intention of these works is to convey a figurative notion—an image, object, landscape or narrative—or to reflect one’s desire to see. Pigments activated by water settle into the porous skin of the paper; fields of color wash over each other repeatedly; brushstrokes of undefined borders seem to simultaneously form and reconfigure. A tear in the paper could be seen as a disruption to the physical body, or rather a continuation of space and...More
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Narratives have the capacity to change our perceptions and embodied experiences, even as they unfold in different forms—across the pages of a book, on stage in a theater, in the space of the gallery, or out in the world. In this exhibition by Covey Gong and Monique Mouton, prismatic artifacts illuminate the ever-shifting nature of the stories that mirror our reality.
Mouton’s washes of color, brushstrokes, and tears of paper suggest dualities: between the abstract and concrete, image and non image, being and nonbeing. One wonders whether the intention of these works is to convey a figurative notion—an image, object, landscape or narrative—or to reflect one’s desire to see. Pigments activated by water settle into the porous skin of the paper; fields of color wash over each other repeatedly; brushstrokes of undefined borders seem to simultaneously form and reconfigure. A tear in the paper could be seen as a disruption to the physical body, or rather a continuation of space and...More
