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Neha Choksi, Houseplant and Sun Quotation 7, 2013
Sunlight on palladium treated paper paired with a digital image, 18 5/8 x 20 in. (47.3 x 50.8 cm)
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Neha Choksi, Houseplant and Sun Quotation 5, 2013
Sunlight on palladium treated paper paired with a digital image, 14 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (37.5 x 52.1 cm)
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Neha Choksi, Sweetheart, 2010-11
HD video, color,stereo sound
6 minutes 12 seconds
Neha Choksi's oeuvre persistently presents a materially bound search for absence. Sweetheart, 2010-11, focuses on a sprig growing from the hollow of a missing limb on an ancient oak tree. It is shot at a cemetery. A good deal of the footage is indirect, reflected off an iconic black square which both reflects and absorbs the image of the sprig. The footage takes us from inside the hollow of the grand oak, out into the cemetery environs, and back again into the site of bodily loss. Structurally each attempt to distill the essence of this youthful sprig breaks down further until the artist's reflection punctures the picture. The eye cannot but settle, unsettle, and rest again. The productive tension between materialist impulses and mental constructs endows her work with a melancholy born of the impossible desire to be immaterial.
Edition of 4
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Jeffrey Vallance, Relic Collection, 2008
Mixed media, 13 1/4 x 9 x 3 3/4 in. (33.7 x 22.9 x 9.5 cm)
Presented in a gold-and-white standing cartouche reliquary, this relic collection includes an assortment of holy medals, milagros, ex indumentis relics (third-class relic cloths), particle from the 9/11 Twin Towers terrorist attack, wood particle from Helena Elizabethkyrkan Church in Umea, particle from the Stockholm Cathedral, grain of sand from the grave of my friend artist Carols Almaraz in Hawaii, small round stone from the LBJ Ranch, metal BB from the Portland backyard, kernel of corn from the Blinky Shrine, soil from the Roman catacombs, Tibetan Buddhist relic, Soviet satellite Lunik 3 badge (1959), plastic gun from gumball machine, cameo from Vienna, tintype of unknown man, "Craxi" Italian political badge, bits of excavated backyard plastic objects, and a paint blob from my studio floor in Canoga Park (1991).
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