Sprüth Magers Gallery, Los Angeles, is hosting an exhibition, titled “Folds and Faults,” through August 19, 2017. The works by Analia Saban are the artist’s experimental, witty, and profound exploration into the ways in which artworks both enter into being and enter into dialogue with the world they inhabit.Across four recent series, the artist weaves together—literally, at times—medium and content, folding art and architectural references with everyday concerns that range from light-hearted investigations to meditations on mortality. As in past works, Saban’s new series is deeply engaged with the basic tools of art-making. While she uses traditional materials such as paint, linen, wood, ink and paper, she turns onto its head our concept of what a painting, sculpture or drawing entails.“The folds and cracks of the dingy apartment the artist lived in during her initial years of struggle have made their way into her works,” notes The New York Times. In the exhibition’s title, Saban borrows the idea of the fold, in part, from philosopher Gilles Deleuze, whose writings describe the cosmos as an “origami universe” that is forever expanding and unfolding; this process also mirrors our own continual folding of the external world into our interior, subjective experience and self-image.In one of the series called “Markings,” she manages to scrape a slice of emulsion off the surface of a photograph, placing it on a canvas nearby like a brush stroke. Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art rightly pointed out that her work stays on a tipping point between the conceptual and the material.Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek into the exhibition.
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