Mira Dancy: Herfugue
1206 S. Maple Ave, Suite 715 Los Angeles, California 90015
Saturday, September 14 at 7:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Nov 10, 2019
JOAN is pleased to present Herfugue, an exhibition of new works by Mira Dancy. Through large-scale drawings, free-standing neons, floor-based sand elements, and poetry, Dancy continues her examination of femininity, power, experience, and archetypal forms. Poetry and wordplay often function as catalysts for Dancy’s works, and here the exhibition’s title, Herfugue, extends from a litany (herfume, herfuel, herfuse, herfugue) of words coined gradually over the last few years. The conception of these fluid and evolving terms, one giving way to the next, involves a process of introspection and invention. The exhibition forefronts the linguistic aspect of Dancy’s practice by presenting her poem, “Amalgam” on the gallery’s center columns. The poem loosely sets the scene for the characters in her drawings–a band of shadowy female figures moving through a dystopian landscape of asphalt and fencing, several motioning towards something sinister just out of frame. These wanderers are accompanied by two hulking neon sculptures– beacons casting lurid greens and violets across the otherwise colorless scene. Swirls of black sand along the gallery floor reference the blighted ground these women aim to navigate, reclaim, and reform.