Sep 12th 2010

Leah Patgorski, Ilia Ovechkin and Jared Madere: WHAT IS A HAMMER?

@ ADDS DONNA

4223 W Lake St, 422, Chicago, IL 60624

Opening Sunday, September 12th, from 3PM - 7PM

On view through Friday, October 15th

As a question and a title, WHAT IS A HAMMER?, featuring Leah Patgorski, Ilia Ovechkin and Jared Madere, functions as a metaphor for an imagined conversation riveted in encountering meaning. What things are and can be is not only debatable for this mix of emerging artists, but the very nature of questioning can be perceived as their medium. The gallery’s second exhibition navigates an imaginative investigation capable of coloring our collective understanding. The question as title acts as structural fodder in advancing an illustrative critique.

Indications of research brought out in Ilia Ovechkin’s mediated documents encompass the appearance of a past correspondence about the research itself. Gestures emerge from the archiving of proof allowing formulations the opportunity to meet with composition. Tent 1, 2010 by Leah Patgorski investigates form and space through modes of nomadic architecture and preservation, customizable by scale, material, and purpose. Through rationalizing a design-to-purpose methodology assistance is offered in specifying an ulterior point to fathom our context in question. The work of Jared Madere affectively focuses on the interpretation of found variables. Madere pays close attention to the sensational register of works in the show and the context they are part of by manifesting a field to re-write our own experience. WHAT IS A HAMMER?, encourages multiple processes for reassessing not only a platform for understanding, but looks towards a demonstrative foundation to begin again.

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