I, I
@ Switch Hook Projects
1450 N Karlov Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Sunday, December 3rd, from 4PM - 8PM
Switch Hook will be hosting the solo exhibition of Lucas Flanders, entitled I, I
Constructing ‘bodies’ as attempts at; or furtherings that initiate substrates to be acts of reading. To approach the context of the stage as a configuration that is multifaceted, a construction that enables both a striving towards a surmised ‘ideal’ of grace, all while said grace is etched away until only the grinding of a bone against bone is left. Grace as a misnomer, as a burnished surface; Flanders’ approaches with a stark curiosity alongside a material’s physicality. It’s translation as a mark against skin. Against wall. A like pair of wardrobe shipping containers slicked in graphite, the floor, the print of a hand against its face; timed and installed in a discontinuous cycle of both exhibition lighting and time of the galleries open hours. The work alludes to or more so is adhered to its end point. Where a material begins, a container gives, is given away, and is reutilized. ‘I, I’ contends with where these original contexts of performance then translate in the ever present contemporary, and how these contexts shift once the individualized provincial becomes skewed.
Primarily operating as a curatorial endeavor between friends, collaborators, Luca Klauba & Zola Rollins – Switch Hook Projects infiltrates spaces of transition as sites of exhibition. In approaching the current climate of their local, Chicago, Switch Hook had set itself in engaging with the harsh contextual divides within the city’s parameters, one which is built into the architecture, the plastering of political oppositional names, faces, upon the buildings garnered as advances in modernist construction. Work being placed against, in opposition of the power structures which build a van der Rohe – how does a gallery question truth? Can one question if itself is adhered to a property division? Switch Hook addresses said mannerisms in the midwest’s post-industrial progress by referring to itself as a non-space, a gallery without the contextual barriers of its building’s exterior.
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