Chapter V
August 1- August 23, 2002
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 1st, 6-8pm
Closing Reception: Thurday, August 22, 6-8pm
Works by Luciana Betesh, Luis Camnitzer, Julia Castagno, Vija Celmins, Alejandro Cesarco, Liam Gillick, Charles Goldman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Jim Hodges, Philippe Parreno, Jack Pierson, Nida Sinnokrot, and Rudolf Stingel.
Chapter V presents works that employ beauty as a restorer of a fleeting object of desire; an artifice that is fabricated to replace that which is ephemeral. Time, a fractured eternity, is reconstituted by an attempt at permanence.
The exhibition examines representations of seduction and desire. Representation signals, by definition, an absence; and seduction is a game that is only satisfied by its own continuous perpetuation.
A conceptual shift lies in the strategies of making these works: their emphasis is not primarily placed on the transmission of information but on how meaning is felt.
Chapter V is organized by Julie Baranes, independent curator from Paris, and Alejandro Cesarco, artist and curator from Montevideo. Both currently reside in New York.
A small catalogue will accompany the exhibition.