ALAN VEGA: GHOST HAND
November 10th 2023 - January 10th 2024
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Embryogallery presents its first exhibition featuring the legendary Alan Vega.
The ability to shapeshift connects the 20 drawings of Ghost Hand by Alan Vega. Like Proteus, the infamous shapeshifter, ghosts, the subject of Vega’s drawings, share similar powers. Apparitions change appearance; they are unlimited by physicality. The process of stripping life away can be seen as akin to being godlike, freeing one from the bond of physicality; the spirit becomes all. We associate ghosts with the past, yet we tend to forget that ghosts can be housed in objects and attached to environments; could they also be contained in art?
Through touch, gut feelings, recordings, flickering light, the shifting of objects, and other reality-bending moments, we recognize that life can carry on after death in ways
beyond comprehension and control.
Alan Vega was working beyond the limits of the physical realm; resurrection was a theme that Vega constantly embraced. When Suicide began touring, some enraged crowds threw axes and glass bottles at the stage in aversion to their performance, but Vega dodged the axes and caught the bottles, smashing them on his head and growling back at the crowd, his face bloodied. That way of fighting back to exist is in all of Vega’s works. For decades, Alan Vega has been at the razor's edge of multi-media art. With Ghost Hand, the focus is on drawings that seem to be haunted in origin. Embedding itself on the page as rapid lines, intensely and strategically placed, confidently composed figurative and non-human that echo before the voice with familiarity. Digging through the corners of our minds and, re-centred back on the scratchy surface of the page. Friendly or frightening, the works reflect memories, fears, and desires.
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Exhibition Catalog
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For inquiries, please contact eq@embryoroom.com
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Embryogallery is pleased to announce T. F. I. D. A group exhibition at our new location in 32 Union Square East, New York City.
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T. F. I. D.
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Opening November 10th
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Ghost Hand: The Drawings of Alan Vega
Mysterious figures seemingly in transition to the Spirit world, materialized from the hand of the legendary Alan Vega. The exhibition features twenty drawings spanning across three decades.
A film by Edward Quist: The Future Is Dead
In the year 1996, a transmission was received from Earth's Sun. The signal appeared to be a broadcast from the distant future. "The Future is Dead '' is a series of bootleg video recordings stolen from the United States military's analysis of the mysterious future transmissions.
The Future Is Dead is produced in collaboration with:
John Duncan
Ilpo Väisänen
Paul Kendall
Brian Ratigan
Nona Et Decima
Kamil Karpinski
Chandra Shukla
The gallery will also be showcasing three additional film projects:
Ilpo Väisänen: Paintings Projektio
One half of the legendary Finnish experimental outfit Pan Sonic, Ilpo Väisänen presents his evocative paintings in projected form for the first time.
Alex Rutterford: The Tomorrow Memory
A recorded A.I. transmission from a future temporal destination, is subconsciously implanted as dream code, taking the form of a liminal digital space, explored by the receiver.
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Sz. Berlin: Spiel mit zeit (HDV-23)
The Haludovo Palace Hotel is a union of two (un)dead futures in concrete form: a gamble on a happy union between US capitalism and Yugoslav socialism. Its days were always numbered, and its repressed catastrophic future returned long ago. Yet it retains an uncanny, luminous atmosphere. In Spiel mit Zeit the ghostly radiance of a lost future haunts the shattered spaces of a lost dream.
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32 Union Square East, Left elevators, Suite 911
6pm- 10pm
https://www.instagram.com/alexrutterford/?hl=en
https://szberlin.wordpress.com
Poster by Chandra Shukla
Poster for the Poland Screening at EXIT Gallery, designed by Jiayi Jacob Zhang
Poster for TRIGGER Shanghai
designed by Jiayi Jacob Zhang