denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body

Works by Frances Beaver, Ralph Dee Corners, Suzanne Jackson, Jennie Jieun Lee, Ragen Moss, Jagdeep Raina, Diane Simpson

Grice Bench | Los Angeles | July 13 - August 31, 2019

Bodily surfaces carry dynamic constellations of visual signifiers. These often give rise to meanings that become inscribed and leveraged by agents of power. Current endeavors to fix individuals in set semantic categories and curtail their rights based on these categorical distinctions persist as obstinately as ever. Considering how attempts to grapple with social structures can become mapped across bodies, this exhibition proposes a host of elastic, dispersed, and excessive corporeal orientations that unmoor themselves from spatial and temporal constraints. What possibilities arise in approaching a bodily boundlessness? How might this alter ways in which time is experienced or quantified? These artists locate anatomies amongst multiple temporal registers, finding potential in reimagined futures derived from personal memories and recursive cultural paradigms. Slipping between abstraction and figuration, their works allow indeterminate bodily forms to take shape at their own paces.

Photos by Paul Salveson