New work by HOBBES GINSBERG, OLIVE KIMOTO, MEGAN MUELLER, MUKTA MOHAN, PAIGE EMERY, GABRIELLA SANCHEZ, REICHEL HERTZLER, and JESS GARTEN
Honey Power Collective and Nous Tous Gallery are pleased to present Selfhood: The Space Between, a group exhibition exploring the fluid nature of identity and current approaches to it through the perspective of eight women artists.
Identity is something used to categorize and distinguish—sometimes to uphold and empower, at others to punish or separate. Yet as traditional cultural markers of identity continue to give way to ambiguities, we grow to accept the boundaries of identity as being flexible, multi-faceted, and ever-shifting. With this comes a pervasive awareness of transience and fragility, that of time, memory, consciousness, and bodies; in other words, all that make up the vulnerable pieces of ourselves that make us human.
To celebrate our ambiguities and inconstancies is to both accept ourselves and find common ground among our different experiences, broadening our relationships with society, community, and a larger sense of self. In the process of demystifying the complexities of selfhood we discover not only what is left among the remnants of our explorations, but also the connective tissue found within it.
On view December 1st-December 13th
Opening reception: Friday, December 1st, 6-10pm
featuring a special performance by INTIMATCHINE (solo set)
HOBBES GINSBERG is described in a profile by i-D magazine as “[constructing] highly original, idiosyncratic work at the nexus of selfie and still life.” Ginsberg will be showing selections from her distinct and expressive photo portraits.
OLIVE KIMOTO is a musician and multidisciplinary artist whose recent projects center around auditory and tactile experimentation as well as an ambivalence toward physicality. Kimoto will be debuting The Soft Glow of One’s Computer Screen (2017), a video installation and performance piece examining the cycle of dissimulation and continuous expansions of identity that leads to the memeification of our self-constructions.
MEGAN MUELLER will be showing work focused on materials and processes that engage timekeeping. Mueller likens her studio practice to a garden: a space of “physicalized time” to be “planned, executed and maintained”. As a spatial thinker, her work ranges from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional approaches to space and time with projects often expected to cast shadows, encourage agency through material misuse, and disregard visual hierarchies.
MUKTA MOHAN is an active organizer, DJ, and founding member of the Honey Power art and music collective. Expounding on the themes of time, emotion, and memory, Mohan’s audio installation Persistence of Memory (2017) composes sound collages from stories and songs that define moments of love and heartbreak, as given to her by strangers calling into her radio show.
PAIGE EMERY combines oil painting and light to tell stories and capture vulnerable moments. Emery will be showing a selection of portraits which with their perpetual fluctuations depict a person’s ever-changing states of being.
GABRIELLA SANCHEZ creates colorful, playful, and energetic multimedia works made with latex paint, sharpie, and pencil. Her fractured figures, open to influence or interpretation, are as informed by consumeristic pop imagery as they are surrounded by it. Sanchez will be showing her recent pieces DAILY and PUBLIC.
REICHEL HERTZLER is preoccupied with the often ambiguous boundaries between illness and health, deterioration and growth, and detachment and intimacy. She will be debuting mixed-media work alongside a performance piece based on trauma and experimentation with physical and psychological boundaries.
JESS GARTEN is a 35mm photographer interested in creating moments that capture both beauty and filth or anguish. Garten will be showing several photographs that center around the human experience of managing conflicting identities in a world often governed by superficial natural selection.
For further information, images, and other inquiries please contact Gabrielle Costa at gabriellemcosta@gmail.com.
Nous Tous is located at 943 N. Broadway St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 (behind the Bruce Lee statue next to Grand Star Jazz Club). Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday from 1 pm to 6 pm or by appointment.
