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Teppei Kaneuji
In his White Discharge series (2002 to today), arguably his best known works, Kaneuji assembles old toys and plastic scarps into dramatic mounded heaps and covers the surface with white plastic resin, drawing on allusions to landfills, commodity fetishism, and creative repurposing. White Discharge (Built-Up Objects #38) (2014) appears playful, like a lost landscape from a whimsical Dr. Seuss story awaiting a charmingly wacky inhabitant. But in drawing its source materials from prefabricated and mass-produced objects, Kaneuji’s work also suggests more trenchant anxieties consumer culture and the rapid and wasteful accumulation that becomes “built-up” in all of our lives.
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N. Dash
Dash shapes, manipulates, and molds the materials herself, as the works becomes something of a physical archive. Through these delicate and time-consuming processes, the artist’s bodily interaction with the material becomes clear, with marks of its making and traces of the artist’s hand embedded in the surface of her quiet compositions.
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Jiang Zhi
5 is a three channel video about the dualities of death and resurrection, reminiscence and fantasy, chronological and retrospective narration. The main video features two dancers intertwining, caressing in trancelike movements, with intimacy eventually leading to scarring and bleeding. Towards the end, the trace of bodily movements and fluids crescendo in an image of a skull in a synthesis of performance, painting and theater.
Jiang Zhi
- location: Beijing
- location: Shenzhen, China
- year born: 1971
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Yuanjiang, China
N. Dash
- location: New Mexico & New York
- year born: 1980
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Miami Beach, Florida
Teppei Kaneuji
Teppei Kaneuji produces sculptures and installation-based work that interrogates Japan’s continuously burgeoning postwar culture of commodification...