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Murray Guy is very pleased to present A sensed perturbation, an exhibition featuring recent work by Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Manon de Boer, Matthew Buckingham, Alejandro Cesarco, Moyra Davey, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Josh Shaddock, curated by Jacob King. Please join us for an opening reception on June 18 from 6 to 8 pm. The works in this show are gestures that strive for attentiveness to affects, situations, atmosphere; finding forms amidst a sense of uncertainty. In particular, these works evoke the practice of close reading espoused by New Criticism in the 1950s, which called for close attention to the internal dynamics of a text, to the denotation and connotations of language, to structures of paradox. Rather than imposing a theory upon a text, close reading aimed, at best, for a description of the phenomena it attempted to explain. Simultaneously, though, these artists put pressure on the 鈥渃loseness鈥� of close reading鈥� the implied proximity to a source鈥攃onfounding flatness and plenitude, reflecting a disturbed sense of distance and time. This exhibition takes its departure from, amongst others, Cleanth Brooks鈥� reading of John Donne; from Moyra Davey鈥檚 observation that she mixes 鈥渃hoice and chance somewhat scandalously鈥�; from John Ashbery (cf. For John Clare, 1955); from a report on CNN that mindfulness can reduce stress; from Giorgio Agamben鈥檚 reflections on gesture鈥斺�淲hat characterizes gesture is that in it nothing is being produced or acted, but rather something is being endured and supported鈥�; from a concept of faciality; from Lauren Berlant鈥檚 description of 鈥渓iving in a stretched out 鈥榥ow鈥� that is at once both intimate and estranged.鈥�