(loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird
Artists: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Barry Le Va, and Charles Ray
Curator: Daniel Byers
(loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird brings together three sculptures and a video: "Untitled" (Loverboy) (1989), by Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Halcion Sleep (1994), by Rodney Graham; a site-specific variation of the work last titled One Edge, Two Corners: On Center Shattered (Within the Series of Layered Pattern Acts) ( 1968/2008), by Barry Le Va; and Handheld Bird (2006), by Charles Ray. Brought together through a series of affective relationships, each work gives corporeal dimension to a state of fragile temporality and heightened sensitivity. With restrained material means but an almost hallucinogenic presence, the works make explicit the shifting boundaries and charged space of encounter between bodies, materials, and interior and exterior spaces.
