Kim Abeles: Body, Machine, and Industry curated by Dana Marterella at Glendale Community College Art Gallery is open to the public, and the RECEPTION is Saturday, Oct 19, 4-7pm. Looking forward to it! Here are a few images from the show that includes selections from The Retina Journal, Smog Collectors, and On Photography (inspired by Susan Sontag).
A note about The Retina Journal:
Over a two-day period in September 2023, the vision of my left eye transformed, first with the appearance of being half-submerged in murky water, and then, to total blindness. The retina had dropped like a curtain. For the year that followed I created numerous artworks based on peculiarities of what I was seeing, new distortions following surgeries, and what I could not see. The world continued to rotate while this interior reality became a framework for my perceptions; I became my own lab rat.
The body is a gadget for observation. We devise contraptions and take photographs to confirm our observations. We assume we all see the same things, make qualitative judgments, and find comfort in collective wisdoms. Truth is sought, lost, and sought again. Is it a table or a chair?