As Above, So Below
Carnation Contemporary, Portland Oregon
2022
Carnation Contemporary, Portland Oregon
2022
Whether it’s looking upwards
to alien flying squirrels in the sky, or downwards to anthropomorphized rocks
underfoot, artists and colleagues Maria Lux and Kyle Peets seek the weird,
humorous, and miraculous. In their dual exhibition, As Above, So Below, rocks become extra-terrestrial, and the UFO-squirrels become terrestrial as
thought circles from the ground to the sky and back. The
gesture of listening to the unknown and the spirit of the imaginary are
applied to rocks and alien flying squirrels to attempt, in flawed terms, to
empathize with them. Play and the suspension of disbelief are used to shift
perspectives towards the more-than-human to destabilize
hierarchical ways of looking/acting at the world.