ARTISTS
Niklas Asker, Rae Klein & Jorge Peris
Order must be imposed if one is to survive and thrive in a world as chaotic as the one in which we live. We are bombarded with a constant and relentless onslaught of information, both threatening and comforting, personal and existential, immediate and peripheral, physical and ethereal鈥攖his everything-all-the-time economy creates an ever-rising tide of anxieties and stressors that our individual skin suits and psyches must adapt to withstand, lest we lose ourselves in the confusion. One鈥檚 personal archive of waking life, our routines for controlling the ever-evolving and expanding galaxy of stimulants vying for our respective attention becomes our armor, a layer of protection from the anarchy of the everyday.
Niklas Asker, Rae Klein, Jorge Peris is an exhibition of artists whose practices filter and funnel the aforementioned informational acid hurricane into consumable portions that foster new understandings. Each artist鈥檚 voice and methodology is unique, yet complementary to the others. Niklas Asker applies an even-handed emotional logic to personal triumphs and traumas, focusing a singular, steady spotlight on compositions reckoning with the death of a loved one, his wife鈥檚 pregnancy, and the search for meaning and beauty through it all in equal parts allegory and representation. A pearl, a ball of light within a skull, a warm glow shining from within a bedsheet become eternal iterations of the same hopeful mantra. Rae Klein鈥檚 visual vocabulary isolates references to mankind鈥檚 attempts to assert its mastery over the feral world through fear, power, spirituality, or some combination of the three. A monumentally-scaled Maltese swimming in so much of its own perfectly coiffed fur that its mobility is seriously impeded, if not impossible, is both a lullaby to the feral world, and an acknowledgement of man鈥檚 place within the hierarchy of species: look what we did to the wolf! Finally, Jorge Peris鈥檚 sculptures comprise a collaboration between his body, the natural world, and the voices inside his head. Cattle femurs cast in bronze become everlasting reminders of the impermanence of flesh and the foundations for new structures and systems of perception.
Taken together, Niklas Asker, Rae Klein, Jorge Peris is a sage reminder of art's ability to quantify the unquantifiable and provide an esoteric framework for appreciating the everyday magic and madness all around us.
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Order must be imposed if one is to survive and thrive in a world as chaotic as the one in which we live. We are bombarded with a constant and relentless onslaught of information, both threatening and comforting, personal and existential, immediate and peripheral, physical and ethereal鈥攖his everything-all-the-time economy creates an ever-rising tide of anxieties and stressors that our individual skin suits and psyches must adapt to withstand, lest we lose ourselves in the confusion. One鈥檚 personal archive of waking life, our routines for controlling the ever-evolving and expanding galaxy of stimulants vying for our respective attention becomes our armor, a layer of protection from the anarchy of the everyday.
Niklas Asker, Rae Klein, Jorge Peris is an exhibition of artists whose practices filter and funnel the aforementioned informational acid hurricane into consumable portions that foster new understandings. Each artist鈥檚 voice and methodology is unique, yet complementary to the others. Niklas Asker applies an even-handed emotional logic to personal triumphs and traumas, focusing a singular, steady spotlight on compositions reckoning with the death of a loved one, his wife鈥檚 pregnancy, and the search for meaning and beauty through it all in equal parts allegory and representation. A pearl, a ball of light within a skull, a warm glow shining from within a bedsheet become eternal iterations of the same hopeful mantra. Rae Klein鈥檚 visual vocabulary isolates references to mankind鈥檚 attempts to assert its mastery over the feral world through fear, power, spirituality, or some combination of the three. A monumentally-scaled Maltese swimming in so much of its own perfectly coiffed fur that its mobility is seriously impeded, if not impossible, is both a lullaby to the feral world, and an acknowledgement of man鈥檚 place within the hierarchy of species: look what we did to the wolf! Finally, Jorge Peris鈥檚 sculptures comprise a collaboration between his body, the natural world, and the voices inside his head. Cattle femurs cast in bronze become everlasting reminders of the impermanence of flesh and the foundations for new structures and systems of perception.
Taken together, Niklas Asker, Rae Klein, Jorge Peris is a sage reminder of art's ability to quantify the unquantifiable and provide an esoteric framework for appreciating the everyday magic and madness all around us.
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