The Displaced Image
Opening Saturday, May 1st 1-6pm, 2021
May 1st - June 13th, 2021
May 1st - June 13th, 2021
Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present The Displaced Image, a group exhibition in the Main Gallery featuring the works of Anthony Peyton Young, Felipe Baeza, Ilana Harris-Babou, Joeun Kim Aatchim, Peter LaBier, Phoebe Osborne and Tommy Coleman, curated by OyG co-director Adam Liam Rose.
In The Displaced Image, artists explore various ways in which fragmentation persists in our contemporary lives. This might reference our collective moment of loneliness and distance, the depths of individual interiority, as well as the fragmentation and displacement of bodies by various powerful actors and systems. Collectively, the works in the exhibition imagine a means for using fragmentation as a subversive tool towards wholeness.
Works give reference to both the psychologically and physically splintered body. Through the use of layering and transparency, Joeun Kim Aatchim’s intimate and meticulously rendered silk paintings offer a quiet yet powerful look into the space between what is seen and what is recalled. Anthony Payton Young’s recent collages use fragmentation as a means to memorialize black and brown individuals murdered due to racial violence and police brutality, drawing our attention to the incomplete images left from lives lost. In Felipe Baeza’s series of small collaged works, hybrid figures are formed by overlaying pornographic magazine clippings with reproductions of mesoamerican figurative sculptures.
Some artists in the exhibition approach images and text through processing (cut and pasted, edited, overlaid, downloaded, degraded). Ilana Harris Babou’s installation combines layered sourced video and collage to explore the ways that wellness industries such as infomercial psychics and health gurus target individuals through media. In Tommy Coleman’s works, scraps of language are used as drawing, creating an effect that is simultaneously confrontational and humorous. Similarly, Peter LaBier’s large-scale paintings isolate subjects of the Western canon, including images of horses and columns, stripping them of their context and thereby challenging their dominance.
An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, May 1, 2021 from 1-6 pm. Please note that in order to follow social distancing measures, OyG will allow visitors into the gallery in shifts. **All visitors must wear protective face coverings at all times while inside the gallery**
A closing performance by Phoebe Osborne titled Release the Horses (fka hydra) will take place online and in-person on June 6th. The work references a many-headed collective body in constant change - stay tuned for more information.
