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Chung King Project: Gina Osterloh Shooting Blanks - 21 Feb 2009 to 28 Mar 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Gina Osterloh
Dots Rear Misfire, 2008 Lightjet, 30 x 38 inches |
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Gina Osterloh Shooting Blanks Feb. 21st -March 28th, 2009 Opening Reception Saturday February 21st from 6 pm to 10 pm Shooting Blanks is Gina Osterloh's debut Los Angeles solo exhibition as her photographs continue to deftly combine elements of sculpture, performance, and painting. Building upon her use of restrained serial performances and gesture, the photographs in Shooting Blanks mark a pivotal shift in Gina Osterloh's arc of work. While previous work insisted upon the use of her own body, Shooting Blanks expands to incorporate other anonymous bodies, and cast paper mache mannequins, as she transforms the human subject of her surreal photographs into a prop, devoid of identity. Created during her recent Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in Manila, Osterloh obsessively cut and collaged colored office bond paper, which comes in only four colors in the Philippines - candy pink, blue, yellow and green, as well as recycled paper from a local factory in Manila. The result is unsettling images of life size rooms where Osterloh activates metaphors of camouflage beyond the language of war and makes visible the psychological and physical space that both the body and its environment occupy. Gina Osterloh's photographs are unexpected propositions that interrupt established narrative through an oblique angle. Employing a conceptualist strategy, Osterloh incorporates a loose rule-based practice that investigates the body as material and image as language. Shooting Blanks is based upon the impotence and futility of language, dislocation, mimicry, and the desire to connect with one's surroundings. For more information, please contact Francois Ghebaly at francois @ chungkingproject.com or at the gallery at +1 213 625 1802 |
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