{"id":38816,"date":"2018-12-13T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=38816"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:06:33","slug":"dachal-choi-emily-wang-cici-wu-looking-into-spotless-rain-assembly-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/12\/13\/dachal-choi-emily-wang-cici-wu-looking-into-spotless-rain-assembly-room\/","title":{"rendered":"~DACHAL CHOI, EMILY WANG & CICI WU . . ‘LOOKING INTO SPOTLESS RAIN’ \/ ASSEMBLY ROOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘LOOKING INTO SPOTLESS RAIN’ – CURATED BY YULIA TOPCHIY
\nDACHAL CHOI, EMILY WANG, CICI WU
\nOPENED . . FRI NOV 30
\nthe show runs thru . . JAN 19, 2019
\nASSEMBLY ROOM<\/a>, 191 HENRY ST., LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC 10002
\nHRS: WED-SUN 12 – 6 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

ASSEMBLY ROOM . . .<\/strong>
\nis a new indie \/ curator-run storefront gallery \/ project space on Henry St. in the L.E.S.
\naiming to be . . “a platform for independent women curators” – the space invites Both diversity and community \/ as well as offering “open calls” . . for ideas & programming.
\nThe space opened this past SEPT 2018 & this is only their 3rd show – I was quite engaged by the 3 young artists at their opening.<\/p>\n

read more about: the 3 co-founders – PAOLA GALLIO, NATASHA BECKER, YULIA TOPCHIY <\/a><\/p>\n

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\nDACHAL CHOI . . at the opening.
\nborn in Seoul, KOREA, her work questions . . “instability and uncertainty within individuals and the societies of which they are members . . .”
\n~ASSEMBLY ROOM <\/p>\n

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\nDACHAL CHOI . .
\n‘Untitled (After Eutheria)’, 2018.
\nmouse trap, engraved metal, silicone, resin, hair & RFID chips.
\ndimensions variable.<\/p>\n

I found it intriguing that this was a ‘grouping’, and yet so stone cold.
\nand yet . . so dark and curious. the small<\/strong> scale, as well as the fact that most of the sculptural grouping, lay on the floor . . led to audience \/ interactive impulses. so imaginative, so ‘narrative’, & yet exceptionally . . industrial at heart \/ but, with a cachet of magic & ancestral fables (the long black pony tail) at heart. dark heart ? playful, IDK.
\nI also half- expected the metal boxes – to get up, and skitter away . . on nano-robotic feet !!<\/p>\n

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\nso, I later read that the cold steel \/ metal boxes were actual mouse traps – which only intensified the context \/ and amplified logic of the floor setting.<\/p>\n

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\na friend of the artist, told me at the opening . . that the resin ‘mini-sculptures’ were “3-D” print-outs of Brancusi sculptures.
\nagain, the implied poetry and, the industrial level . . both – raised up a BIG, couple of notches.<\/p>\n

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\nthough, vs Brancusi (‘The Kiss’), overall, I did feel overall, there was a deep, sad heart at play here.<\/p>\n

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\nI guess you should go walk amongst this . . mini-sculpture park for yourself, get lost in reverie, sensuousness. and technical abandon \/ & come to your own . . conclusions. <\/p>\n

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\nEMILY WANG, in front of her large watercolor.
\nboth an artist and a musician, Ms. Wang performs under her solo project Lima Rei<\/em>, and with the band Dies Smely.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nEMILY WANG, ‘At the edge of time’, 2018.
\nwatercolor, pencil, charcoal, oil on paper.
\n46 x 34 in.<\/p>\n

again, this is really something you need to get up close and personal with \/ to experience at the fullest. secrets & emotions . . run subtle, deep and powerful in this show.
\n“spotless rain” . . . ???<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, EMILY WANG, ‘At the edge of time’.
\nthere was also a very ‘technical’ side to this piece as well, all was not . . poetry.
\nthe subtle \/ powerful yin yang \/ give & take . . technique of watercolor painting, vs the effect of ‘colored’ oil paint on paper, the effect of water, equated the presence of passing time.
\npassing thoughts: brush in hand \/ in free-fall.<\/p>\n

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\nCICI WU, a large and seemingly . . fragile hanging.
\nCici Wu was born in Beijing, and raised in Hong Kong.
\nHer work has been exhibited at 47 Canal, as well as other venues, both here and abroad.
\nShe has been the co-organizer of an artist-run residency & exhibition space, PRACTICE, since 2015.<\/p>\n

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\none gets the sense of fragile, yet ready-made \/ strong and sturdy despite the willow-i-ness. plastic is indestructible, and though (organic) flowers do<\/strong> come and go, flowers hopefully, will always . . bloom.
\na happy thought to depart on. & a sense one gets about all 3 of these young women.<\/p>\n

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\na cosmic diagram in a basket ?
\nthe power of the life force \/ the universe, the creative impulse ?
\nthe tantric road map. the signs that a pencil can make.
\nlet’s hope so !! or maybe, then again . . . not.<\/p>\n

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\ngrounded !! humbled.
\nthe kite \/ the ribbon. the thought ‘balloon’ . . is tethered to the floor.
\nwhat does this say, about our humanity & shared experiences.., limitations and also genetic ‘common sense’ \/ despite our diversity and very different origins.<\/p>\n

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\nPAOLA GALLIO, NATASHA BECKER & YULIA TOPCHIY – the 3 co-founders of ASSEMBLY ROOM.
\nYulia Topchiy . . curated ‘Looking into Spotless Rain’ \/ their 3rd show.<\/p>\n

‘Looking into Spotless Rain’ . . is up thru JAN 19, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘LOOKING INTO SPOTLESS RAIN’ – CURATED BY YULIA TOPCHIY DACHAL CHOI, EMILY WANG, CICI WU OPENED . . FRI NOV 30 the show runs thru . . JAN 19, 2019 ASSEMBLY ROOM, 191 HENRY ST., LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC 10002 HRS: WED-SUN 12 – 6 PM ASSEMBLY ROOM . . . is a new indie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38816"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38858,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38816\/revisions\/38858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}