黑料不打烊

Field Projects presents Figuring the Uncanny, an exhibition of works by Judy Chung, Judy Koo, Fay Sanders, and Bob Szantyr. The uncanny occurs when the repressed psychic reality of childhood overtakes the physical mechanics of the familiar adult world. Nothing is uncannier than the 鈥渘early鈥� human and, for this reason, no genre expresses the uncanny better than figurative art. The works in this exhibition play with the physical boundaries of the human body, forgoing realism in favor of symbols, dreams, and fantasies. Judy Koo鈥檚 confident, Matissian paintings dissolve the boundaries between different subjectivities and corporealities. In his sculptural distortions of childhood toys, Bob Szantyr reveals the centrality of childhood, play, and the domestic realm in the workings of the uncanny. Fay Sanders playfully appropriates the primary color palettes associated with sports teams to offer a more complicated image of women鈥檚 athletics, by turns joyful and sinister. In her sugar-rush dreamscapes, Judy Chung blends the human, the animal, and the inanimate. Together, these works challenge the coherence of the human form and, inevitably, the coherence of the human consciousness. They evoke the threat鈥攁nd promise鈥攐f the uncanny in the figures most familiar to us.

Judy Chung鈥檚 works are attempts to make sense of the world that we live in by exploring the dissonance between false binaries and dualities that are prevalent in ideologies both throughout history and in the immediate present. She is drawn to questions about perversion and innocence, the wielding of power, the dynamics of gender, and of good and evil. Much of the imagery Chung uses in her work is a nod towards anime/manga, video games, art history and mythology, all distorted into reimagined narratives.