| ANYA TISH GALLERY // OCT 23 // 6-9PM |
| KATJA LOHER SCULPTING IN TIME |
| Anya Tish Gallery is delighted to announce the first Houston solo exhibition of New York-based Swiss artist, Katja Loher, Sculpting in Time. The Artist will be present at the exhibition’s opening reception Friday, October 23rd, 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Working in several different mediums and with a number of collaborators from around the world, Loher’s explorations of language and visual form come together in an assemblage of present technologies and dramatic sculptures. Katja’s video sculptures have been shown internationally from China to Europe , and she is a recipient of the Swiss TPC CreaTVty Award. She has just completed residencies in Berlin , Germany and in Beijing , China , as well as being awarded several prestigious grants. In her Miniverse Series Katja Loher creates a push and pull between traditional mediums and innovative conventions, impregnating sphere - shaped sculptures with her videos accompanied by a soundtrack by Asato Fudjimoto. Loher’s video sculptures explore the complex relationship between humanity and nature through a depiction of a bird’s eye view of choreographed movements of uniformed crowds performing tasks that formerly occurred in nature without human interference. The spheres act as communicative vessels in which vortexes and tunnels allow one’s eye to travel and transport necessary information from one video to the next. They suggest innovations of the future through their sleek acrylic design, establishing a new kind of modernized brain as a means to protect a sense of unity between the natural planet and the human population. The works transform the gallery into a liminal space in which the video sculptures float effortlessly like planetary objects around an anthropomorphic sun evoking themes of existence as well as mortality. A door with a peephole sits mysteriously within the gallery that when looked through, challenges the viewer’s voyeuristic sensibilities by projecting one’s magnified eye onto a nearby weather balloon. The viewer is unknowingly transported from the gallery space into an obscured world of new perspective, instantly becoming an integral part of Loher’s collective resistance against the prospect of unbalanced future. |
| Anya Tish Gallery 4411 Montrose Boulevard Houston, Texas 77006 (713) 524-2299 www.anyatishgallery.com |
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