Paroxysm of Sublime
6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Thursday, October 3 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Nov 3, 2019
Artists: Eddie Aparicio, Carmen Argote, Beatriz Cortez, Sara Favriau, Etienne de France,David Horvitz, iris yirei hu, Candice Lin, Laura Huertas Millán, Eva Nielsen, Nine Herbs Charm (Eric Kim, Hannah Mjølsnes, Saewon Oh), Hubert Robert, SMITH x DIPLOMATES, and Daniel Otero Torres This exhibition brings together reflections on our shared pathology and pathos. If a sense of dread, fear, and grief is palpable, then so is the desire to act. These reactions are brought into the light, so that we might collectively face what we must collectively correct. In catastrophe, affect becomes not an ending, but a hinge to incite evolution in our relationship to the environment, to loss, and the passing of time, sometimes romanticized or fantasized. The blending of timelines and cartographies works towards a more nuanced view of past, present, and impending change, to ritual and symbiosis as methods of healing. This confluence of time and space encourages the reconsideration of other paradigms – nature/culture, pre/post apocalypse, native/foreign.