DEEP SURFACE

Curated by Adrien AllenAdrien AllenVirginia OverellUtako ShindoDavid ThomasDAVID THOMASSELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK OF TITLES 1991-PresentWHEN THE INCONSEQUENTIAL BECOMES CONSEQUENTIALNOT TOO SERIOUS NOT TOO LIGHTPIGEON CONTEMPLATING GEOMETRY HAMBURGON THE QUESTION OF SUFFERING PARTICULARLY OF THE INNOCENTWHEN THE END MEETS THE BEGINNING
LISTENING TO THE SILENCE BETWEEN TWO COLOURSTHE VERY PRECARIOUSNESS OF MEANINGA STILL PAINTING THAT SHOWS US WE ARE MOVINGUNTITLEDA SLIGHTLY UNFINISHED PICTURE
IT IS WHAT IT IS BUT WHAT IT IS, IS MORE THAN IT SEEMSI CAN’T SEE FOR LOOKINGIT CAN’T BE AS SIMPLE AS THIS/THAT4 LAYERS OF PAINT TO MAKE A PICTUREA SLIGHTLY RED SQUARESEAGULL CONTEMPLATING A BUBBLEWHEN TWO DIRECTIONS BECOME ALL DIRECTIONSWHAT MATTER DOES ...WHAT DOES MATTER... WHAT MATTER DOESN’T… WHAT DOESN’T MATTER:A TIME WITHOUT INTENTION …
SOMETIME I LIKE THE SACRED, THE SUBTLE AND THE SLOWMY LOVER MY FRIEND I WAS BORN TO DIE WITH YOU (PORTUGUESE FADO)
MONOCHROME AS INTERVALON GREYTHE SPECIFIC AND THE GENERALON THE DELICATE DANCE OF PASSING LIFE
UNTITLED: LIGHT AND DUST,A SLIGHT SHIFT IN THE CONTINUUM OF TIME
SLIGHTLY ODD PAINTINGGENTLY PAINTED PAINTING
FINDING PERSPECTIVENOT ONE WASTED BRUSHSTROKELISTENING TO WHAT THE WORLD IS TELLING MEUTAKO SHINDO
depth
after
before front
back
the depth of time the depth offield how it just remains
underneathabove up below
a bell-ringing cricket chirping
how it subsides
criminal
mind criticalactcamera rolling crying heart
how it undoes ‘I’
how it just remains how it
subsides how it undoes ‘I’
by the feel of the touch by
how far it can get by what itreaches
it is defined
the depth is as such as
humans can know
seen from the surface isn’t
true, in a senselook from the bottom it israther the heightthe surface
the bottom
there where we wish
the shades in hands
the gentleness in eyes thecurrent in your heart

VIRGINIA OVERELL“I recover my continuity as he reads”
It’s so pretty
It’s big
it’s awesome, it’s just salty
I was surprised as to how salty it tasted, but amazed as to howwarm the water“just seeing the ocean”
it’s cold
I’ve always been terrified of water I can’t see through and I’ve seenthings I’ve never seen before. That’s what scares me, there’s thingsburied.
FIRST TIME SEEING THE OCEAN!
More mysterious Ocean Facts
HURRICANE SWALLOWS UP THE OCEAN.
OCEAN IS GONE !!~I Caught a Rare Fish in the Indian Ocean
WHAT! WHY DID THE OCEAN JUST DISAPPEAR AND DRY UP, END
TIMES SIGNS
Entire Ocean is Missing!!! Irma takes a whole bay away in the Bahamas!!!
Ocean Gone
Atlantic and Pacific Ocean meet at the point of mid Ocean. it’s rare
View
1 Dead Ocean + 1 Missing Ocean = the TERRAFORMING of Planet
Earth - U Woke
2 Hours of Beautiful Coral Reef Fish & Relaxing Ocean Fish & Stunning Aquarium
4 Hours of Ocean Waves Sea Wave Stunning Sound - Paradise atLast! Relaxation!

“One’s ability to grow a hard shell around oneself, like a snail,against which sensations tap their beaks in vain.”
If a surface is understood as a skin that encloses, one can imagine
a type of carapace forming, a crust that holds within it a closed
individuality, not merging with other bodies or with the world.
Yet, our experience of surface can be more participatory, being led
by our intention and response, potentially opening our material
and psychological exchange with the world. The exhibition Deep
Surface playfully questions the dichotomy that an ontologicalenquiry, or search for meaning, is parodied by a fascination withsurface. Our encounters with surface need not rest in the hermeticor the superficial, rather we can sense surface as permeable and incontinual formation with us and through us. Deep Surface does notassertively accept or resist our culture of easily consumed surfaces,
instead it imagines the poetry inherent to a horizontal depth.
ADRIEN ALLEN 2017

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