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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present I Capture the Castle, David Gilbert’s second solo show with the gallery.
For the last two years, David Gilbert’s practice has focused on a sustained investigation of private fantasy and queer space with the symbol of a castle at its center.
Castles can suggest the fairy tales, princesses and kings, but a castle can also be a site of violence and power which claims and holds onto land. There is the pomp of lavish feasts, coded gestures, elaborate ceremonies, but also strict protocol, oppression, and violence against invaders. Gilbert is drawn to this intense duality: the tension between a sanctuary and a prison, between a heaven and a hell. Who is kept in? Who is kept out? What is protected, and what is hidden behind the castle walls?
He began crafting castles out of paper, transforming these ponderous stone symbols into something light,...More
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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present I Capture the Castle, David Gilbert’s second solo show with the gallery.
For the last two years, David Gilbert’s practice has focused on a sustained investigation of private fantasy and queer space with the symbol of a castle at its center.
Castles can suggest the fairy tales, princesses and kings, but a castle can also be a site of violence and power which claims and holds onto land. There is the pomp of lavish feasts, coded gestures, elaborate ceremonies, but also strict protocol, oppression, and violence against invaders. Gilbert is drawn to this intense duality: the tension between a sanctuary and a prison, between a heaven and a hell. Who is kept in? Who is kept out? What is protected, and what is hidden behind the castle walls?
He began crafting castles out of paper, transforming these ponderous stone symbols into something light,...More
