Every Last Day
An exhibition by Dos Pestañeos featuring live performance
www.dospestaneos.com
January 11 - 27, 2007
chashama Times Square Gallery
112 West 44th Street
New York, NY
Reed Barrow (Chicago), Ben Fain (Miami), Vivienne Griffin (Dublin), Hope Hilton (Atlanta), Leigh Horowitz (NYC), Scott Lawrence (Atlanta), Andrew Ross (Chicago), Vanessa Mayoraz (Geneva), David Prince (Los Angeles), with performances and window installations by Mystic Order (Chicago/NYC), Terry Milledge (Atlanta) and Alex White Mazzarella (NYC).
With its heart contemplating the fertile terrain of the in-between, Dos Pestañeos presents Every Last Day, an exploration into the potential of transitional reality. Perceiving the threshold as an intermediate space charged with possibility and quite possibly haunted, the collective has shaped an exhibition of magic, ignorance, illusion, uncertainty and pleasure. Without regard for classifications or dichotomies, the artists have instead worked within the "excluded middle", the wish being to give breath to the complex, vital state of flux- a realm of the sacred, the taboo, and the mysterious. The shaman mediated between humans and gods, ghosts existed between life and death, werewolves between man and animal: this is the anti-structure of limbo, the capacity of every last day.
Dos Pestañeos is an art and curatorial collective currently based in New York, Atlanta and Sarasota.
The collective was formed in 2002 both as a way for its members to continue the dialogue and community that was begun together in art school, and as a response to the vital need for artists - themselves and other artists - to create and exhibit their own work on their own terms.
Although informed by each other, Dos Pestañeos only sometimes collaborate on specific works. Instead, commonalities in their individual practices may become the bases of themed shows in which Dos Pestañeos act as both artists and curators, inviting people from the community to participate. In this way each exhibition has its own dynamic life.
Past exhibitions have addressed such themes as the future, illusion and belief, nature and civilization, and indeterminacy.
