Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica presents a solo exhibition of new works by Lucia Koch titled "No more things."Koch stages various architectural interventions with the intent to interrupt viewers’ tendencies to focus on the content of a space rather than its architecture. To create this effect, she employs a range of manipulations, adding light filters and translucent materials, altering skylights and facades, and pasting images of three-dimensional spaces to walls. These techniques collectively create a tension between the interior and the exterior, challenging the limits of particular spaces. Her work reflects her larger political concern about the sustainability of generic, mass-produced structures.Through "No more things," Koch will present a continuation of her Fundos series: photographs of the interiors of empty boxes, bags, and packages, manipulated to house and reflect light and mimic architectural scales. Koch began photographing for the Fundos series in 2001 while reading Paul Auster’s dystopian novel, "In the Country of Last Things," which narrates the story of a collapsed society with no economy or industry, where the people must resort to selling rummaged and forgotten objects to survive. In this collection of new photographs, Koch explores the feeling of void when objects become obsolete and only their negative space is left behind. The result is a series of disorienting portals that hint at the inexorable collapse of a materialistic society.Lucia Koch lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. In September 2017, the artist she will be included in the PST: LA/LA exhibition, Condemned to be Modern, curated by Clara Kim, Curator at the Tate Modern, at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park. Recent exhibitions include Transparência e Reflexo, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); Jameel Prize 4, Pera Museum, Instanbul, Turkey (2016); the solo exhibition, La temperatura del aire, at el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Caja de Burgos (CAB), Burgos, Spain (2015); and Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2014); among others.The exhibition will be on view from September 9 through October 28, 2017 at the Christopher Grimes Gallery, 916 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA.For details, visit: www.cgrimes.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition
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