re:LAX
Dates: July
11 – August 22, 2003
Opening
Reception: July 10,
5-7 p.m.
With: Fabian Birgfeld, Marco Brambilla, Zoe
Crosher, Guy Hundere, Soo Jin Kim, Ester Partegàs,
Christina Ray, John Schabel, John Sparagana , Kerry
Tribe and Tim White
Curator: Megan Riley
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“With airport travel,
travelers are never where they want to be; they are always on their way, and
there are always better places to go.”
Jodi
Hauptman, Martha Rosler: Positions of the
Life World
Airports and air travel combine
endless motion with emptiness and a certain transient anonymity. Los Angeles
International Airport (best known to frequent flyers as LAX) is the gateway to
one of America’s largest cities. For this exhibition, LAX provides the
departure point for contemplating broader themes of airport culture, travel, as
well as movement in general.
re:LAX brings
together work by 11 emerging and established artists whose contributions
reflect and challenge the ideas surrounding “airport culture.” LA-based artists
Kerry Tribe and Zoe Crosher use LAX as their backdrop and the platform for
their interpretations of movement and space.
Ester Partegàs celebrates
the ordinary by offering her own irony-laced insight into the often overlooked
utilitarian components of transit – in this case, sculptures of corporate
airport terminal planters. Fabian Birgfeld’s sleek terminal interior triptychs embrace these
somewhat transient areas of passage while documenting their sheer beauty. With the traveler as subject, John Schabel’s
photograph from his “Passenger” series exhibited in the 1997 Whitney Biennial
captures the passenger pre-departure, in that identifiable moment between
tension and relaxation. Additionally,
the video and photography work of Marco Brambilla,
Guy Hundere, Soo Jin Kim, Christina Ray, John Sparagana
and Tim White continue to explore and are inspired by the ideas of spatial
experiences and perpetual motion. re:LAX provides the viewer a grounded opportunity to reflect upon
travel, its fleeting and frozen moments, stolen glances, and the time and space
in between.
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