Artists: Kajahl, Manuel Cornelius, Lauren Fejarang, Kathy Goodell, Kyle Hittmeier, Michael Jones McKean, Kate McQuillen, Amanda Nedham, Cecilia Salama, Andrew Paul Woolbright
Exhibition title: A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck
Curated by: Andrew Woolbright
Venue: Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
Date: January 30 – February 29, 2020
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Coherent, Brussels
What is the difference between a portal and a mirage?
Philip K. Dick’s perception of the world was transformed by a pink laserbeam,
a bright light that bounced off of a necklace and entered his brain through his eyes,
revealing that the world is superimposed of multiple timelines;
the cul-de-sac exists at the same time as the Roman Coliseum and the Christian gladiatorial fights.
A portal opened the shape and size of his head, a fishbowl of perception and layered reality.
What makes it through the portal is affected by materialist replacement and switch,
of fragmentation and l’informe. Every color is faded soft by the reality hopping.
A garden of forking paths lands in the gallery space, everything changed and transmuted
by the shift of time and space.
Here are images and objects of undisclosed hierarchies and anachronism.
It is a figuration of humanoids, chimeras, and alternate timelines; an abstraction of debris,
protean language, fragments and goo.
Holodeck gothic.
A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck, 2020, exhibition view, Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck, 2020, exhibition view, Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck, 2020, exhibition view, Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck, 2020, exhibition view, Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck, 2020, exhibition view, Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck, 2020, exhibition view, Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
A Pearl Laser on the Gothic Holodeck, 2020, exhibition view, Coherent, Brussels, Belgium
Andrew Woolbright – 2019 Sad Gundam Shrinebeast, Ink and oil on Poem 49.5 x 29 cm
Manuel Cornelius – 2018 Untitled (part 1 of an unresolved sculpture), Reinforced concrete, chair143 x 92 x 88 cm
Cecilia Salama – 2019 Rat Beauty, Mixed media 89 x 114 x 5cm
Andrew Woolbright -2019 Apotheotic emblematic hand of the mysteries Silicon rubber, white pigment, vibrating back massager 46 x 17 x15 cm
Andrew Woolbright -2019 There are no happy endings because nothing ever ends Laser engraved marble 61 x 61 cm
Kate McQuillen – 2019 Oh No For Sure Acrylic on panel 41 x 31 x 4cm
Kathy Goodell – 2019 Night Watch Ink, Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas panel 44.5 x 60cm
Lauren Fejarang – 2019 Float Hard Concrete, Pigment, Steel chain Variable dimensions
Amanda Nedham – 2019 Good times, for a change II, Graphite and acrylic on panel 30 x 51 cm
Michael Jones McKean – 2019 On earth Paper, collage, vinyl lettering, paint 120 x150 cm
Amanda Nedham – 2019 Good times, for a change I, Graphite and acrylic on panel 36 x 28 cm
Kajahl – 2018 Jaguar Claw Effigy Study, Oil on wood panel, 36 x 28 cm
Kyle Hittmeier – 2019 377 Union Street II, Inked print in artist frame, 47 x 47 x 5.7 cm