Space & Time’s group show “Water & Air” is open now through 8/19. | ✍️ Annette LePique
artists book and Carris Adams'sThe elements water and air both seem to possess an aloof quality. They lurk until they want their presence known, like a hurricane. Water drips through our synapses and air expands our lungs like bellows. We’re beings of water and air, held aloft by the systems we create to corral waves and tame winds. This question of systems, of ways of understanding the world, lies at the heart of Space & Time’s new show, “Water & Air.
Space & Time, one of the city’s increasingly rare storefront artist-run galleries, is a fitting space for an inquiry into the nature of how we encounter, relate to, and understand this often inchoate world. I make these claims as art and our experience of it are increasingly cosseted by private funds and institutional barriers. Storefront spaces, like the city’s long history of apartment galleries, is a way to not only open art to multiple publics but to transform our shared landscape.
demands a group of 11 artists dissect the questions inherent to touching, feeling, and being in the world. It’s an investigation taken up with deft hands, for all these artists acknowledge the frictions inherent to directing the currents where language often fails.In Elizabeth Allen-Cannon’s 2021 artists book—available for free to visitors at the show’s closing reception—text moves across newsprint pages like ripples within puddles.
, 2022. Graphite lines stand stark against the white landscape as the muscular, craggy lines of each person quiver with anticipation, their hands open to their sky. The body language of each figure is left open to interpretation: they could be lovers, antagonists, or friends. The gender and sex of each figure are also left ambiguous. To the right of the duo stands a gray banner of static where two cells are in the process of dividing, their outer membranes covered with tiny flagella.
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