| November 5th, 6-9pm Lachlan Hinwood, Georgia Hourdas, Liu Kincheloe, Kalil Mitchell, Bonnie Morano, Ryan O’Malley, Noa Raviv, Mark Sengbusch, Vin Stracquadanio, Richard Tinkler, Kalina Winters and Jack WoodSweet Lorraine Gallery and Jack Arthur Wood are proud to present Twinning Aufheben, an exhibition of artworks that use symmetry to different ends. The exhibition opens on November 5th from 6pm until 9pm at Sweet Lorraine Gallery located at 183 Lorraine St. Brooklyn, NY, 11231.Symmetry’s dualities are well represented everywhere you’d want to look. The German word aufheben, meaning to negate and preserve simultaneously, was often used by Hegel to describe dialectics. Symmetrical artwork obliterates the subject through doubling. The image being reproduced internally leads to a weird graphic totality.Limitation is implicit in the symmetrical form because two halves make the whole. The mirroring image becomes the subject and we must know if it is a perfect replica. Symmetry becomes a space with a lot of room, where things can happen two times Like Teletubbies, who always do everything twice, using symmetry is novel and mimetic.Symmetry also illustrates binary without difference, a precise doubling or twinning. When we assume two things to be the same it creates tension between the sides.Twinning, especially in our society hell bent on individualism, produces an uncanny eeriness. Hence the twins in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) or Brian De Palma’s Sisters (1972), and finally Robert Altman’s Three Women (1977) which all employ twinning in different ways, as a sign of schism.Symmetry can signify wholeness and division. The bisected center provides a gap, crossed over glancing back and forth, where momentum slips through, destabilizing or transcendent. In this exhibition artists count on both. |
