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All that is visible clings to the invisible. Perhaps the thinkable to the unthinkable.
Novalis, “On Goethe,” Philosophical Writings
The Shiver, Jiang Cheng’s current solo exhibition with Tara Downs, marks an inflection in the artist’s practice, the culmination of a new body of paintings produced over the past four years. As new entries in Jiang’s enduring U-series, these works not only extend the artist’s methodical approach to abstracted forms of portraiture, but also reconsider its conceptual foundations, self-reflexively drawing the series’ abiding concerns regarding representation and process into closer proximity with a diverse array of historical lineages.
The exhibition takes its title from a sensation produced through the act of painting, which Jiang describes as a moment of rupture, “that instant of being startled” in which controlled fixation on th…
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All that is visible clings to the invisible. Perhaps the thinkable to the unthinkable.
Novalis, “On Goethe,” Philosophical Writings
The Shiver, Jiang Cheng’s current solo exhibition with Tara Downs, marks an inflection in the artist’s practice, the culmination of a new body of paintings produced over the past four years. As new entries in Jiang’s enduring U-series, these works not only extend the artist’s methodical approach to abstracted forms of portraiture, but also reconsider its conceptual foundations, self-reflexively drawing the series’ abiding concerns regarding representation and process into closer proximity with a diverse array of historical lineages.
The exhibition takes its title from a sensation produced through the act of painting, which Jiang describes as a moment of rupture, “that instant of being startled” in which controlled fixation on th…
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