Oct 6th 2011

Joel Parsons – Pas De Deux and Variation

@ Gallery X

280 South Columbus Drive, Room 113, Chicago, IL 60603

Opening Thursday, October 6th, from 4PM - 6PM

On view through Thursday, October 27th

“Pas de Deux and Variation” grew out of Joel Parsons’ conflicted relationship with classical ballet and the ideal it valorizes. In an attempt to navigate the territory between his simultaneous sentiment attachment and critical remove, Parsons refracts choreography created by his partner through multiple processes, each of which is grounded in his own self-taught ballet practice. Through a combination of sculpture, performance, and photography he extends himself, awkwardly but earnestly, into the opaque parts of another person, and in the process creates a space between the actual and the ideal, seduction and alienation, failure and success.

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