Their gestures bend toward the surreal, evoking an awareness of humor, growth, rhythm, and time. They enjoy a resignation from assigned-operation, as if their newfound autonomy allows for a rejection of purpose.īoth artists explore a freewheeling approach to our expectations for how objects, abstractions, and colors operate. Instead, they seem to challenge our expectations for how we understand what is “humane” and what are “human-made” objects. Similarly, Peragallo’s sculptures reject their assigned purpose-a pillow enjoying a smoke-break (tired of being a literal object of support), a ladder lounging (evocative of a bather at the beach). Repetitions of linear forms combine and intersect to imply movement, rhythm and teeming energies. Kemp’s paintings are sly, nuanced expressions of the tension that lies between linear boundaries and oozing, undulating growth. These sculptures and paintings suggest a level of animation as they test the boundaries for how we decipher the non-human or beyond human. Through the lens of our anatomical, messy, breathing lives, we observe these pieces living on the edge between figuration and abstraction, and the sentient vs. The artworks in this show operate on the periphery of the human body. Playing off of this complex and manifold concept, the artworks presented suggest attempts at breaking through conventional limitations-visual and otherwise-to explore the undulating, organic, imperfect nature of existence. The French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari adopted the term “Body without Organs” to act as a metaphor for a large range of ideas pertaining to how we understand limitations, potentiality and interdependent relationships. With an acute level of humor, labor, and self-awareness, this exhibition takes a cheeky approach to the concept of “a body without organs,” an unconstrained potential of a freely operating body. Transmitter is pleased to present Organs Without Bodies-a two person exhibition of work by Jenny Kemp and Marianna Peragallo.
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