Bruising Darkness
new work by
Claire Arctander and Latham Zearfoss
Reception: Saturday, July 19, 6pm 9pm
July 19 August 17, 2014
Lease Agreement
3718 Ellerslie Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21218
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Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
videos by
Claire Arctander and Latham Zearfoss
Sunday, July 20, 5:30pm
Windup Space
12 W North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.thewindupspace.com
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Perhaps there is some other way to live. […] This possibility has to do with demanding a world in which bodily vulnerability is protected without therefore being eradicated and with insisting on the line that must be walked between the two. -Precarious Life, Judith Butler
Bruising Darkness is a collaborative installation comprised of rocks and ropes by artists Claire Arctander and Latham Zearfoss. Rocks provide a foundation on the floor, there to be looked at and to be stepped on. Ropes descend from above, draping and looming overhead. Viewers enter into the humid tension of the space between. Rather than reinscribe a straight line between poles, Bruising Darkness draws orbital paths amongst seemingly oppositional forces. The rift, the wound, the scar, the schism - here they shift from sites of shame to portals of potential.
Concurrent with their exhibition Bruising Darkness at Lease Agreement, Claire Arctander and Latham Zearfoss present a program of video works made over the last 6 years, culled mostly from the artists' respective solo practices. Both artists use video as a means to affectionately and affectively engage their audiences with ethical dilemmas surrounding desire and representation. The screening will be held at the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave, on Sunday, July 20, beginning at 5:30pm.
Zearfoss and Arctander are interdisciplinary artists living and working in Chicago. Beyond their frequent art collaborations, they also co-DJ and curate a monthly performance and dance night, Crimson Glow, which celebrates femminess and feminists and showcases female-spectrum musicians. They both hold MFAs from the University of Illinois at Chicago and have extensive solo practices that thematically converge at issues surrounding the interface of desire, identity and physicality. More of Arctander and Zearfoss' works can be seen at their websites, www.clairearctander.com (Claire Arctander) and lathamzearfoss.org (Latham Zearfoss).
Lease Agreement is a collaborative curatorial project by artists Adam Farcus and Allison Yasukawa. Set in the living room of the couple’s rental house, Lease Agreement continues in the tradition of apartment gallery exhibition spaces by exhibiting conceptually rigorous, engaging work within the context of a home.
