Millitzer Studio & Gallery: Friday, 2 December 2016
an elegy for
Marco
Opening Friday,
December 2, 2016, 7-10 PM
Performance
active from 7-9 PM
Free and open
to the public
On view
12/2-12/30 by appointment
The Millitzer Studio
& Gallery presents an elegy for Marco, an exhibition of
new works by Catalina Ouyang. Through the lens of a second-generation
Chinese-American woman, Ouyang navigates identity, desire and the legacy of
imperialism. The notion of fetish is central as both spiritual object
(talisman, amulet, relic) and sexual proclivity, evoking questions
of representation, sanctity, artificiality and objectification. Loaded
positionalities interrogate the duality of resistance and self-subjugation: the
dilemma of trying to contradict power dynamics in white heteropatriarchy
without reinforcing those very tenets. Whiteness is aspiration, fetish,
hand of oppression, tool of erasure; an elegy for Marco contends
with this violent history by underscoring empathy, consent and the necessity of
vulnerability.
The Millitzer Studio & Gallery
3103 Pestalozzi Street
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