Tali Alisa Hafoka's exhibition Carried Across on view now in the Street Gallery
Tali Alisa Hafoka's exhibition Carried Across on view now in the Street Gallery
Feb 13, 2015 – Mar 7, 2015
A-I-R SPACE: FEB 13 – MAR 7
He experiments with the grid—a pictorial theme commonly found in modern art – in order to allude to systems of sequence and order. However, through Frioux’s gestures of pushing, pulling, shifting, and distorting the grid, pairs of foils begin to highlight new ways of seeing.
“The simple forms hearken back to the ocean,” explain Frioux. “The grid billows and shrinks, becoming broken nets or open windows. The unexposed dark layers seep through the bright stripes, illuminating perimeters and resulting in anticipation and wonder. Just as the lines are constantly pushed and pulled, the viewer is dragged through the undertow and rolled towards far-reaching horizons.”