Pilar Corrias

Sam Lewitt & Lucy Raven: "Wild Sync & Weak Locals"

23 Jun - 05 Aug 2016

"Wild Sync & Weak Locals" installation view at Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
Sam Lewitt, "A Weak Local Lexicon (MHTL)", 2016 [detail]
"Wild Sync & Weak Locals" installation view at Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
Lucy Raven, "Casters", 2016
Pilar Corrias Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition by Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven, "Wild Sync & Weak Locals".

In the ground floor gallery, Sam Lewitt activates custom fabricated copper-clad plastic heating circuits by maxing out the electrical energy available for lighting. Etched out of exposed photolithographic emulsion, the copper lines that heat up on these films trace-out pull quotes from the lexicon of infrastructurally administered flexibility.

In the lower gallery, Lucy Raven recreates the industrial rotocaster as a system for projecting light. Two wall-mounted structures, Casters (2016), rotate 575w lamps in mirrored trajectories, illuminating the interior of the gallery in a figure X.

Sam Lewitt (b. 1981, Los Angeles, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: "Less Light Warm Words", Swiss Institute, New York (through July 2016); "More Heat than Light", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2016), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2015); "Verbrannte Erde: Second Salvage", Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (2014); "Casual Encounters", Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2014); "International Corrosion Fatigue", Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2013). Recent group exhibitions include: Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); "No Shadows in Hell", Pilar Corrias, London (2015); nature after nature, curated by Susanne Pfeffer, Fridericianum, Kassel (2014); Geographies of Contamination, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2014); and "Materials and Money and Crisis", co-organised with Richard Birkett, mumok, Vienna (2014); Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012).

Lucy Raven (b. 1977, Tucson, Arizona, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Serpentine Galleries (forthcoming December 2016); "Low Relief", Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (through November 2016); "Lucy Raven", Centre Vox de l’Image Contemporaine, Montréal (2015); "Curtains", Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); "Hollywood Chop Riding", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); "Curtains – Lucy Raven", Interaccess Gallery, Toronto (2014); "Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven", Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012). Recent group exhibitions include: "Le Grand Balcon [The Grand Balcony]", La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal (forthcoming July 2016); "The Owl’s Legacy and its Discontents", National Gallery of Prague (2015); "Over you/you", 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2015); "Art in the Age of Planetary Computation", Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2015); "Test Pattern", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013); "and Materials and Money and Crisis", mumok, Vienna (2013); "To Look is to Labor", Basilica, Hudson (2013); Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); "Dust in the Machine", Centre for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe (2012); "Greater New York", PS1, Long Island City, NY (2010).
The artist wishes to thank: Bob Bielecki, Vic Brooks, Robert de Saint Phalle, Michael Friend, Eric Lin, Paul Marlow, Corrina Peipon, Alena Samoray, and Phil Tippett.
 

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