Don't miss this new exhibition at Lehmann Maupin (through March 5), featuring paintings by Dominic Chambers:
Dominic Chambers, 2021. Photo: Daniel Kukla. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
Some folks who read this might be familiar with your work, but can we start with a very quick elevator pitch overview of the show?essentially my attempt to take the therapeutic practice of “shadow working” and disseminate that approach through images related to my shadow, in a surrealist sense and in a more personal sense. Some of these things are internal issues, and whenever I’m dealing with internal issues it becomes easier to think about them in the context of their absurdity.
I would say a ghost self, for sure. There’s a painting in the show that’s like a self-summoning, in which you summon past versions of yourself to make sense of where you are now. Because you’ve had values, judgments, and worldviews that may have been necessary for you at one point in time, but may not be relevant for you today, and then eventuallybecomes your ghost self.
Look at last year: so many people quit their jobs. That’s probably the only good thing about this pandemic; it really forced people, whether they like it or not, to do that shadow work. They’re not naming it that, but that’s what that is. That’s why people are really recontextualizing, reconsidering what it is they’re doing.
Through certain writers who are canonical, like Baldwin, a sense of community grows out of the writing. Before you read them, you think these emotional realities are micro-problems or a micro-considerations that exist only for you as an individual. The edges get soft. they become less defined, less legible. And there there’s a space where you determine what that thing could potentially be. And what happened to me… I thought I was defined by a certain set of parameters.Yes, It’s reductive. I wanted to turn away and just reconsider what the fuck I was doing. Creating myself. I think it’s necessary for Black people to define ourselves. I think it’s hard for anyone to be able to define themselves under the pressure of hot light.
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