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Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Becoming Animal, an exhibition of new work by Lyne Lapointe that expands upon her previous representations of the many ways the body—gendered or otherwise—finds resilience, freedom and protection in a world where it is consistently made to feel fragile and ‘othered.’
Inspired by a passage in A Thousand Plateaus, written by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the exhibition title recalls the attitude they describe as being essential to the creative process: ‘becoming animal,’ or, an ability to inhabit different material and ontological perspectives. This phrase philosophically expresses a consistent quality in Lapointe’s work, namely her ability to ‘embody’ her materials—whether it be ink or glass beads, coral or abandoned beehives—by allowing them to retain their own specificity while also fully incorporating them into the pictorial spaces of her figures. Just as Lapointe’s materials contribute t…
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Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Becoming Animal, an exhibition of new work by Lyne Lapointe that expands upon her previous representations of the many ways the body—gendered or otherwise—finds resilience, freedom and protection in a world where it is consistently made to feel fragile and ‘othered.’
Inspired by a passage in A Thousand Plateaus, written by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the exhibition title recalls the attitude they describe as being essential to the creative process: ‘becoming animal,’ or, an ability to inhabit different material and ontological perspectives. This phrase philosophically expresses a consistent quality in Lapointe’s work, namely her ability to ‘embody’ her materials—whether it be ink or glass beads, coral or abandoned beehives—by allowing them to retain their own specificity while also fully incorporating them into the pictorial spaces of her figures. Just as Lapointe’s materials contribute t…
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