Artist: Luke Libera Moore
Exhibition title: God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex
Venue: ASHES/ASHES, New York, US
Date: April 14 – May 21, 2023
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and ASHES/ASHES
ASHES/ASHES is pleased to present God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, a solo exhibition by Luke Libera Moore. The exhibition will be on view from April 14th to May 21st, 2023, with an opening on Friday, April 14th, from 6–8PM. Gallery hours are Wednesday— Sunday, 12–6PM.
God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex
Abstraction ÷ Utility = Ritual
Ritual is the quotient of utility and abstraction.
We perform rituals to push back against the unknowable – to keep the void at bay. Repetitive habits grant some semblance of solidity to our fractured selves, constantly pulled as we are between lived personhood and the image of personhood.
Here I wonder how deep the primacy of loss extends in our minds. Many faiths and philosophies lament the forfeiture of some bygone wholeness, mythological as it may be. Is banishment from Eden still the psychic scar of a secular and digital world? Something primordial beckons me from a lump of dirt: it dares me to escape. This retrogressive longing urges me to abandon modernity itself: a seemingly impossible feat. As Romantic as this sounds, it is the hypnotic cajoling of the death drive: the impulse to negate.
On the other hand, the forward momentum of possibility demands I look ahead and outwards, to what’s not yet become. Things may very well get worse, but they also could get better; suffering: abated; conflict: resolved; love: known. This is the impulse to create.
Between these two poles is the here and now. The ticking confusion of presentness, always escaping.
Too much world, yet never enough time – how the days just slip through my fingers. How sadly I’d sop up something life-affirming. Something tangible, durable, real. But the swirling time swamp just keeps trudging.
Idiosyncratic rituals concretize my life between the void of nothingness and the frenetic haze of anxiety. For the past two years, all of my personal rituals have been performed in pursuit of completing these five sculptures. These weird earthen spaceships function like agnostic icons or obsessive-compulsive totems; they anchor me like stars at night in the frustrating conundrum of my impossible fantasies; they are the abstract, imaginary tools I build in order to materialize the daydream utopias I weave alone, always out of reach.
– Luke Libera Moore
Luke Libera Moore (born 1990; Yonkers, NY) received an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT) and a BFA from The Cooper Union (New York, NY). His interdisciplinary working methods include sculpture, photography, writing, and drawing. His elaborate photographic constructions have been presented in various publications including Artforum and PIN-UP Magazine. Recent exhibitions include My Whole World, Baader-Meinhof (Omaha, NE); edenchrome for all, ASHES/ASHES (New York, NY); MEATWARE, Sumer (Tauranga, New Zealand). This is his second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Luke Libera Moore, God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, 2023, exhibition view, ASHES/ASHES, New York
Luke Libera Moore, God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, 2023, exhibition view, ASHES/ASHES, New York
Luke Libera Moore, God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, 2023, exhibition view, ASHES/ASHES, New York
Luke Libera Moore, God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, 2023, exhibition view, ASHES/ASHES, New York
Luke Libera Moore, God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, 2023, exhibition view, ASHES/ASHES, New York
Luke Libera Moore, God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, 2023, exhibition view, ASHES/ASHES, New York
Luke Libera Moore, God-Chunk : Chrono-Plex, 2023, exhibition view, ASHES/ASHES, New York
Luke Libera Moore, Arcane Resonance Sequencer (Chrono-Collider), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, acrylic paint, cast latex, found hardware, fabric dye, 57 x 38 x 9 1/2 in, 144.8 x 96.5 x 24.1 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Arcane Resonance Sequencer (Chrono-Collider), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, acrylic paint, cast latex, found hardware, fabric dye, 57 x 38 x 9 1/2 in, 144.8 x 96.5 x 24.1 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Arcane Resonance Sequencer (Chrono-Collider), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, acrylic paint, cast latex, found hardware, fabric dye, 57 x 38 x 9 1/2 in, 144.8 x 96.5 x 24.1 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Arcane Resonance Sequencer (Chrono-Collider), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, acrylic paint, cast latex, found hardware, fabric dye, 57 x 38 x 9 1/2 in, 144.8 x 96.5 x 24.1 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Godhead Uplink (Chrono-Conception), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 54 x 25 x 11 in, 137.2 x 63.5 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Godhead Uplink (Chrono-Conception), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 54 x 25 x 11 in, 137.2 x 63.5 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Godhead Uplink (Chrono-Conception), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 54 x 25 x 11 in, 137.2 x 63.5 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Godhead Uplink (Chrono-Conception), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 54 x 25 x 11 in, 137.2 x 63.5 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Sanctum Key (Chrono-Cutter), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 36 x 53 x 8 1/2 in, 91.4 x 134.6 x 21.6 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Sanctum Key (Chrono-Cutter), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 36 x 53 x 8 1/2 in, 91.4 x 134.6 x 21.6 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Sanctum Key (Chrono-Cutter), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 36 x 53 x 8 1/2 in, 91.4 x 134.6 x 21.6 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Sanctum Key (Chrono-Cutter), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, hay, cast resin, polystyrene, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 36 x 53 x 8 1/2 in, 91.4 x 134.6 x 21.6 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Nostalgia Console (Rose-Tinted Regression), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, cast resin, latex, motor, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 32 x 42 x 11 in, 81.3 x 106.7 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Nostalgia Console (Rose-Tinted Regression), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, cast resin, latex, motor, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 32 x 42 x 11 in, 81.3 x 106.7 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Nostalgia Console (Rose-Tinted Regression), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, cast resin, latex, motor, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 32 x 42 x 11 in, 81.3 x 106.7 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Nostalgia Console (Rose-Tinted Regression), 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, pigmented wood putty, paper pulp, cast resin, latex, motor, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 32 x 42 x 11 in, 81.3 x 106.7 x 27.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Core-Sample with God-Chunk, 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, paper pulp, cast resin, polystyrene, cast latex, plaster, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 41 x 22 x 3 1/2 in, 104.1 x 55.9 x 8.9 cm
Luke Libera Moore, Core-Sample with God-Chunk, 2023, Cardboard, papier-mâché, paper pulp, cast resin, polystyrene, cast latex, plaster, acrylic paint, fabric dye, 41 x 22 x 3 1/2 in, 104.1 x 55.9 x 8.9 cm