July 21, 2018
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
JULY 21 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 | Julia Haft-Candell
Phantom LIM, on view July 21 through September 1, 2018, investigates the formal relationships developed in the imperceptible negotiations between art and object.
A phantom limb is the physical sensation that a missing limb is still attached. It is the discrepancy between what is perceived and what is there. This phenomenon reveals the way people exist toward the world, oriented around perceiving the world, on one hand, and a tension in time and space between the person-in-the-present and the habit of being, on the other. This tension continually navigates a limbo zone, where new perspectives and aesthetic forms can coalesce in the gap between being and becoming.
It is this perspective that the Torrance Art Museum inhabits with Phantom LIM - objects forming in these indeterminate regions, oriented to the world, by bodies that perceive, build and judge. Phantom LIM showcases artworks that re-make themselves into the world by requiring the viewer to actively negotiate their form and content. The artists in Phantom LIM investigate these limits of perception and the formal relationships that develop in the aesthetic exchanges between object and art. Relying less on the predestination of planning, and more on intuition, they determine their artwork through both conscious and unconscious aesthetic and practical judgements.
The works in the exhibition negotiate nebulous boundaries and zones of indeterminate determination - liminal spaces where “objects-in-process” intersect with “art object.” These are spaces between here and there where a moment of transition occurs, a directional impulse that remains a Schrödinger’s cat or a memory of something yet to happen.
Artists: Julia Haft-Candell Steve DeGroodt Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack David Gilbert Gedi Sibony Coleen Sterritt Jessica Stockholder Joan Tanner Valerie Wilcox
Curated by Benjamin W. Tippin and Max Presneill