gavlakgallery: ♥️ Last chance to see @homosexuals_anonymous’s photographs on view for t
gavlakgallery: ♥️ Last chance to see @homosexuals_anonymous’s photographs on view for the summer group exhibition at Gavlak LA! Dean Sameshima’s series, (1998), portrays photographs of rumpled beds that evoke domesticity, encapsulate the ‘private’ & conjure tranquil bodies in repose. Coming in closer, we see more clearly: these beds have been used, slept in, lain on, untucked. They evoke an ambiguous sense of longing and loss. The presence of human bodies is absent from the scene, yet their absence is palpable. Considered in isolation, Sameshima’s pictures of empty beds flooded in different colors and light endeavor to address loss not only as an individual and isolated process, but also as a collective one, through a kind of performative transference that reinvests the lost object into the social, public sphere. Sameshima’s beds visually articulate mourning & melancholia as constitutive of social materiality. Through these ‘in-between’ days we envision phantasmagoric silhouettes; here the uncanny and the surreal are as present as ever. Viewed in context as a whole, the exhibition presents itself as both an homage to and a declaration of aesthetic surreality, presenting an amalgamation of two separate yet intertwined mediums: photography and paper collage. @marnieweberstudio @francesca_gabbiani Dean Sameshima ( ), 1998 Edition 2/3 +3AP Set of 15 C-type prints 8 x 10 inches, each. Gavlak LA is open by appointment. Click the link in our bio to schedule a viewing of the Summer Group Exhibition before it closes tomorrow! #deansameshima #photoart #artphoto #photoartwork #photographs #inbetween #melancholia #stilllifephotos #stilllifephoto #emptyroom #emptyrooms #photographicseries #emptybed #withoutyou #tenebrism #voyeur #photoseries #90saesthetics #contemporary_art #contemporaryartists #contemporaryarts #lgbtqpride #lgbtplus #gayartist #ninetiesart #copingskills #copingmechanism #counterculture #90svibes (at Gavlak)https://www.instagram.com/p/CEKd8kxlyam/?igshid=o6et499w5u7q -- source link