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Essex Flowers presents Who Do You Think They’re Fooling: You?, a solo exhibition from Christopher Corey Allen (CCA) featuring a new three-channel video installation and a series of scagliola tablets concerning the relationships between language, image and the ever present process of shaping a (the) self (selves).
In Rubber Room/ I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST, CCA uses a family heirloom: a steamer trunk painted by Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig. Hertervig is known for his semi-fantastical landscapes created after his discharge from Gaustad Hospital, where he was treated for psychosis at the age of 26. The trunk, adorned in a faux sealskin pattern during Hertervig's later years, becomes a symbol of inherited narratives and personal history, a detail often recounted during CCA’s childhood and immortalized in Jon Fosse’s novels "Melancholy I-II."
The video installation comprises three monitors. Two display CGI stage lights directed at a central screen, which…
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Essex Flowers presents Who Do You Think They’re Fooling: You?, a solo exhibition from Christopher Corey Allen (CCA) featuring a new three-channel video installation and a series of scagliola tablets concerning the relationships between language, image and the ever present process of shaping a (the) self (selves).
In Rubber Room/ I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST, CCA uses a family heirloom: a steamer trunk painted by Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig. Hertervig is known for his semi-fantastical landscapes created after his discharge from Gaustad Hospital, where he was treated for psychosis at the age of 26. The trunk, adorned in a faux sealskin pattern during Hertervig's later years, becomes a symbol of inherited narratives and personal history, a detail often recounted during CCA’s childhood and immortalized in Jon Fosse’s novels "Melancholy I-II."
The video installation comprises three monitors. Two display CGI stage lights directed at a central screen, which…
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