Limited Time Engagement, the artist duo of Kate Conlon and Boyang Hou, creates situations and commemorates them with objects. In Egram, LTE invites viewers to step right up.
In this site-specific contrivance, a comic foreground is revealed to the viewer only as they look through the hole and assume the role of subject.
Visitors are invited to use the provided 35mm camera to document themselves viewing. The resulting image is a souvenir, marking the experience of looking and being represented.
LTE invites your to commemorate your visit to Egram by taking a photo.
Look back at your experience: photos will be routinely updated on www.marge.gallery/myphoto
Von Hyin Kolk (b. 1997 New York) explores how mistranslation and fragmented comprehension give rise to new narratives. Drawing from her experience as the child of Cantonese-American immigrants, her paintings emerge from misinterpretations of Cantonese phrases. Point at a Deer, Call it a Horse (Wordboil Motherfeed) borrows its title from an ancient Chinese idiom. The phrase has become a metaphor for the deliberate distortion of truth - originating from a Qin dynasty court anecdote in which an official called a deer a horse to test the loyalty of the emperor's ministers. Rather than correcting her own mistranslations, Kolk treats them as the foundation to create new myths and non-linear stories.
Kian McKeown (b. 1999, New York, NY) is a sculptor and draftsman whose work exists in a space of subtle wrongness - stretching or inventing objects that stray from their expected use. Interested in scale, awkwardness, and bodily relation, McKeown transforms utility into absurdity.