Ajay Kurian
POLYPHEMUS
Sep 22nd — Nov 24th, 2020
Goucher College, Silber Art Gallery, Baltimore
Location
Goucher College, Silber Art Gallery, Baltimore
Featured Artists
Ajay Kurian is a Baltimore-born, New York-based, conceptual artist working in sculpture, painting, and installation. His invitation to Goucher as the Nancy G. Unobskey ’60 Visiting Artist in Modern and Contemporary Art occasioned his solo exhibition of new work envisioned for and presented in the college’s Silber Gallery.
Kurian’s exhibition, installed to resemble a clandestine beer hall meeting, depicts cycloptic figures that possess power and status, populating a table in an ambiguous, social grouping. Atop easy postures and snappy outfits, their heads are each made up of a watchful, rotating eye and an illuminated smile. Above, a disembodied set of mechanized eyes monitors the scene, part security camera, part dystopian nightmare. Within this space all are observed, and all are observing. There is a symbiotic relationship between the platform and participants in which those who have gotten through the gates become gatekeepers—this club polices itself.
Opening day walk-through streamed live on the gallery instagram
Tuesday, September 22 to 7:30pm
More dates through November 24, 2020
For further information please contact Julia Köhler via e-mail or call +492113014360.
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Monday—Friday10.00 am—6.30 pm
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Saturday12.00 am—2.30 pm
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HYGIENE AND DISTANCE REGULATIONS
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The visit of the gallery is only possible for adults and children (from 6 years) with an own mouth and nose protection (everyday mask). Please keep a distance of at least 1.5 m from other visitors inside the gallery space. Groups of people less than 1.5 m apart are prohibited. Please observe the general rules of hygiene (such as regular hand washing). For your own safety and for the benefit of all, only visit Sies + Höke if you feel healthy.