Reviews

Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relámpago

Halves are made whole in Eamon Ore-Giron’s syncretic paintings, which combine elements from the Americas and Europe at different points...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
March 3–August 20, 2023
Location:
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
Credit:
Text / Barbara Purcell

Of Oysters, Roaches, and New Pessimism in Hong Kong

It’s all very Videodrome. That body horror manifests in phone-breath-bed 3 (2023), a sculpture presented in its own small room. A silicone face emerges out of a Perspex panel, where, lower down, a silicone slab forms a womblike concave depression. The panel hovers over the form of a hospital bed with the support of gray plastic piping, whose mattress is a screen-skin painting with creased dermal folds framing silicone protrusions that swell from the flatness.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
June 29, 2023
Location:
Hong Kong
Credit:
Text / Stephanie Bailey