Kim Farkas

Every waking moment, Earth is inundated by an inconceivable supply of solar radiation. We cope with this immense surplus of energy by terraforming agricultural landscapes, routing giant textile mills, and powering an industrial churn of globalized consumer goods; efforts, all of which, may never fulfill the great economic supply chain the sun provides. Despite this overabundance, a growing consensus of public research studies signal inflation as our top concern, trumping crime, climate change and immigration. As a near universal devaluation of fiat currencies bleeds everyday savings, doubts of labor-time and our ledgers of holdings are evermore exacerbated. Questions of wealth, its future deferment, and ancestral stores of value continue to reorient our thinking, behaviours, and even lifespans. How then do we store the sun?
The typically immaterial processes undergirding these anxieties—global flows of capital, transfers of wealth and commodity supply chains—find form in On Grist and Sunstroke, an exhibition of new works of domiciliary orientation by New York-based artist Justin Chance and Paris-based artist Kim Farkas. Here, Farkas presents five suspended biomorphic sculptures, lamps lambent with the diffuse glow of fluorescent lights. Embedded within these liquiform encasings are miniaturized plastic facsimiles of consumer items and edibles that are the objects of broad ritual use among an international Asian diaspora, counting among these ramen bowls, Marlboro Lights and fiat currencies. At once artifactual and architectural, the works’ tubular and lambent silhouettes echo the financialized origins of an evolving Singaporean nocturnal cityscape – a hub of shifting domestic habitudes. Meanwhile, Chance’s three human-sized quilted works concentrate the diurnal process of hand felting, physically instantiating the conditions of labor-time through the slow enmeshment of wool fibers. Imbuing the warp and weft of craft histories of the American South, the wet and needle felted fabrics express densely-detailed abstractions of color. Both practices reflect and manifest unique ancestral notions of the potlach, as spiritual provisions to defer wealth for a future time, and the contingencies resident in nascent formats resident in the shade of domestic habitude.

On Grist and Sunstroke

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Kim Farkas

22-04, 2022

Custom composites, LED bulb and fixture, stainless steel

ø9 3/4 × 49 1/4 in / ø25 × 125 cm