Current Exhibition

Cristóbal Lehyt: Iris Sheets - Cristóbal Lehyt’s (b. 1973) approach to site-specificity questions the immediate perception of sight (and the site) as a device of cultural translation: what you see is not what you get. For Lehyt, site-specific sculpture occupies the exhibition space as a phenomenological difficulty rather than an encounter with the audience.

Lehyt’s artistic practice, specially his drawings, also departs from a psychological conundrum, projecting the real on a screen, or "sheet"—a piece of white fabric, thick but not totally opaque, serves in this case as an allegory of sight as blurred vision or detritus. Typically, his series of drawings entitled, Drama Projections operates within the liminal realm of language as an impediment or defect. Drawing serves as a medium for a silent type of storytelling in which a mechanism of reproduction/psychic projection allows the artist to delve into life’s everyday conflicts that are unleashed by the artist’s narrative impulse.

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