RED PATIENCE
Bass and Reiner Gallery (San Francisco, USA)
Exhibition with Ohan Breiding
2021
Please listen here to sound-work RED PATIENCE (Distance) by Aio Frei
We’re in a time of broken earth, where the idea of a stable ground is destabilized [...]. 2
Between two crouching masses of the world, the world shows itself. 1
A volcano is a reminder of the earth’s insides, the trans-temporal reference of a million-year-old convulsion of flowing magma, suspended. Working through earthly crevices as departure-place for an embodied research, this collaborative exhibition delves into and indulges in the
Orifice
Fold
Opening
Mount
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1 Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red
2 Kathryn Yussof - Geologies of Race / A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
& David Getsy - Ten Queer Theses On Abstraction
RED PATIENCE has been developed through pandemic months as an exchange of kindred co-labor between the artists: A shared methodology of creating haptic art works alongside each other in disparate places. In the context of contemporary disembodied all-digitized-relationality, the artists account for a shared desire to expand into deep time and learn the earth, look down, engage in multiple and complex layers of form, history, and composition. As the research of the volcanic is shaped by touch, literary and theoretic texts*, and sensuous tracing, the artists center a non-phallic cascading, erupting, cratering and inter-connected melting in this exhibition.
If rock can melt, form is not given.
RED PATIENCE is a proposition of placed research and collaboration through the (geological, shared and individual) body, particularly the non-binary one.
The artists aim to erode single authorship toward shared thinking, expanded genres or a convolution of the idea of a clear reading of abstracted artworks.
Instead, the artists allow for a (simultaneously alert and passionate) patience during this time of waiting, asserting feeling body and bodies to allow room and space beyond binary definition.
Swiss designer and sound artist Aio Frei contributed in a furthered collaborative gesture with their design for the take-away risograph print, and soundpiece Red Patience (Distance) that visitors can access via QR code or link above
for the duration of the exhibition. A Frei's sound work engages in the recently researched volcanic landscape of the archipelago chinijo. Confronted with the impossibility of tuning into geological temporality, the sound artist works with attentive recordings for this exhibition: Seeking embodied intimacy to their surrounding, they record the touching of lava stones and swellings of the ocean and combine them with Californian modular synthesis.
| graphite on polypropylene |
| 16.54 x 23.43 [in] |
| ceramic sculpture |
| 9 ½ x 8 ¼ [in] |
| graphite on polypropylene |
| 16.54 x 23.43 [in] |
| ceramic sculpture |
| graphite on polypropylene |
| 11 x 14 [in] |
Izidora l LETHE and Ohan Breiding
| fragments of red boxing glove |
Izidora l LETHE and Ohan Breiding
The artists want to thank Sho Halajian, Aio Frei and the Bass and Reiner team.