September 9 to October 14, 2023
Read Two on and With by Fan Wu and Jeremy Laing in Peripheral Review.
Read Framework 9/23/1, Anna Daliza on Jeremy Laing, published by Susan Hobbs Gallery.
An object sits in front of a mirror; “vase” is the word we know to describe, or translate, what we see reflected.
“Vase” names both the object and its image, but what the object is could perhaps best be understood by an experience of its materiality, and how it came to be.
A piece of clay, thrown on a wheel, shapeshifting, turned into a vessel through the concatenation of external constraint and expansive centrifugal force, holding, in its void, a content that is the shaping of itself. Not what, but who, but how?
Philosopher-poet-potter-pedagogue M.C. Richards explored the relationship between poetry and the person through the metaphor of centering, drawn from the craftsmanship of pottery. Centering: active practice of non-dualism, a continual engagement with experience becoming the locus of fluidity.
“Our world personifies us, we know ourselves by it. Let us then speak to each other in our most intimate concern.” Let us speak to each other, not for each other. Let us translate our own experiences, utter our own names, tuned into the resonant vastness that a name can never bridge, let alone fill.
Mirror-vase.jpg consists of new and ongoing works by Jeremy Laing that consider the gallery a vessel – here a vessel for vessels – where, and through each, material and making processes serve as stand-ins for, and conduits to, experiences of personhood.
Personhood in transition and translation.
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Mirror-vase.jpg (Translation 2), 2023
Mirror-vase.jpg (Translation 1), 2023
Mirror-vase.jpg (Translation 3), 2023
Digital jacquard woven cotton and viscose
174 x 115.5 cm each
Floor:
Phantom limb, 2023
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, upholstery piping chords, insulation pad, thermal bubble
16.5 x 84 x 30.5 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, bolt of synthetic tulle from a past life,
hair accessories, insulation pad, sandblasted mirror, bagged clay
20.5 x 119.5 x 61 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, synthetic rafia, sandblasted mirror, bagged clay
37 x 61 x 61 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, macramé cord, sandblasted mirror
36 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Mirror panels on stair risers
Variable dimensions, commissionable for alternate site
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, aluminum foil tape,
synthetic hair accessory, sandblasted mirror
30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, unrolled hair bun accessory, mirror, stool, metallic lighting louver, cord
121.5 x 81.5 x 35.5 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, belt from a past life
26 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, synthetic hair hair accessory
26 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, the artist's spiked choker
27.5 x 18 x 15 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, chenille yarn
25 x 25.5 x 15 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, belt from a past life
26 x 13.5 x 13.5 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, digital jacquard off-cuts
23 x 16.5 x 20.5 cm
G lazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, unrolled hair bun accessory, sand-blasted mirror, foiled cake plate
24 x 23 x 33 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, macramé cord, styrofoam cake form, foiled cake plate
35.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, upholstery piping cord, sculptor's wheel
38.5 x 23 x 23 cm
Glazed wheel-thrown and altered ceramic vessel, synthetic hair, hair accessory,
stolen orange glow marking flags, packing peanuts
52 x 57 x 11.5 cm
Documentation by Toni Hafkenscheid.