2018
table, Chicago

Photos by Kim Becker

Carmen Amengual, The Tenuous Arithmetics of Kinship, 2018, installation view.

Carmen Amengual, Slight appearance and its antonym, 2018.

Carmen Amengual, The Tenuous Arithmetics of Kinship, 2018, installation view.

In this exhibition the artist explores ideas of overlapping temporalities, inter-subjectivity, strangeness and mourning. The main installation is composed by hree couplings of slide and video projections that loom in the exhibition room, while shimmers of daylight alter the space, filtering shades through a fabric piece installed in the window. The slides, pictures of flowers shot in a botanical garden in the early 70’s in London by the artist mother, are paired with videos shot by the artist of similar flowers in a botanical garden in Los Angeles. What might seem a futile attempt to re-perform a gaze becomes a ritual of mourning and a meditation on the fragility of the present.
From the ceiling, a ceramic sculpture in the shape of an arm, holds metal cowbells, both a location devise and maker of time passing.
In a small room, behind the kitchen area, a rope piece in the shape of a ladder proposes the possibility of uniting what is physically separated.

This exhibition was installed at table, a temporary artist-run project space organized by Kyle Bellucci Johanson in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago.

Carmen Amengual, The Tenuous Arithmetics of Kinship , 2018
(detail),




Carmen Amengual, The Tenuous Arithmetics of Kinship, 2018.




Carmen Amengual, The Tenuous Arithmetics of Kinship, 2018
(detail).

Carmen Amengual, Knot Positioning or How to Trace a Line Behind Doors, 2018.


Carmen Amengual, Hours, 2018.




Carmen Amengual, Slight appearance and its antonym, 2018, (detail).