Jenny Yurshansky: A Chance Operation (Feb. 13th 7-10pm)

Exhibitions

A Chance Operation was conceived as a response to Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things. A desire to jump start the initiative to reconsider, reframe, recontextualize: a push to make order a matter of fancy rather than fact. Contemporary organizational structures that define current lines of reasoning and classification can be traced to concepts which arose out of the Age of Reason. Careful scrutiny of those theorists of leisure reveals a group of bold speculators. Perhaps that boldness can be taken up as a course of action once again? The installation features a room sized crate with a narrow door. Within the interior’s dislocated space swirl thousands of fragments of a maze, the viewer is invited to keep whatever elements of this infinitely recombinative order they choose to.

The varied sculptural installations that constitute the artist’s practice often behave as poetic parodies of analytic assertions. The multi-faceted approach that defines the work explores fissures in derivative conclusions by extending beyond the borders of exhibition.

Jenny Yurshansky was born in Rome and lives in Los Angeles. Her upcoming exhibitions include the Laguna Beach Art Museum, MAK Center, and LAXART. Past exhibitions include S1F Gallery in Los Angeles, the 7th Istanbul Biennial, the Hammer Museum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, and the Toyota Museum in Tokyo.