World Views

Shuvinai Ashoona

Jesse Chapman

Peggy Chiang

Max Guy

John-Elio Reitman

Cici Wu

321 Gallery presents World Views, a group show organized by John-Elio Reitman.

Reitman has included works operating in multiple discrete realities to form a non-hierarchical or horizontal cosmos. Within it, subjectivities intercross, divide and combine. We start to see where our own “world view” exists, the limits of which come in and out of focus as we bump into one another and then slip away. Shuvinai Ashoona’s Worldview (2011), for which the exhibition is named, shows a group of unique celestial bodies–Earth-like in appearance with familiar green and blue hues–seemingly effervesce from a larger body, like tellurian bubbles. What would we feel in these different climates, familiar but unique, and how do these bodies co-exist with one another and in relation to their origin?