-Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire, Livre III: Les Psychoses.
The artists in SMOKE AND MIRRORS investigate the nature of reality; how objects, memories, ideas come into being, how they persist and how they cease to exist. The works want to make ghosts appear in the flesh and, at the same time reveal their illusionary nature. These artists are magicians of their trade, oblique translators of both physical and virtual environments, recreating stages and props, histories and identities. By exploring the space between known and unverifiable realities, they shed light on the infinite vagueness of the anthropocentric universe.
The exhibition encompasses video, sculpture, installation and performance and presents artists from Argentina, Finland, France, Italy, Germany and the United States.
Adler Guerrier
Alejandra Urresti
Barry Markowitz
Bettina Khano
Clifton Childree
Dorsey Dunn
Elizabeth Withstandley
Gioj De Marco
Gordon Winiemko
Heta Kuchka
Joséphine Wister Faure
Lewis Colburn
Thomas Müller
Torrance Art Museum - 2018
Photo Credit: Elon Schoenholz
