Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz
In their first two person show together, Adrian Meraz and Christina Tenaglia work separately and together, integrating ideas of influence, of commingling; and of entanglement. Acknowledging the inevitable transference that enters a shared studio space, Meraz and Tenaglia highlight the use of collaboration as an additional conversation and shared space within their practice. The work in this exhibition is loosely structured around the ‘shelf’ as site and as a collection machine. These collaborations are versions of place, each one a microcosm, whereas to transmit, alter, expand, reference, trick and play with the language of each other.
Appendix (notations on a shelf):
Shelves as carriers, as holding places. As sites for intermingling, for mixing unlike and like, for storytelling, as paragraphs and lists, support structures, tools. Shelves as open baskets, as outward hands, as way stations.
As platforms, as a stage, a performance, an arrangement.
As memory.
A table, a bench, a shelf, an incident, a perch, a plank, a receptacle, a site as an invitation device.
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