Hair and Skin
Organized by Isaac Lyles
July 9 - August 15, 2013
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 10, 6-8pm
My interest in how we experience art and my dissatisfaction with prevalent cognitive explanations is the impetus for this exhibition. Developing research on mirror neurons and neuroesthetics suggests an alternative model of vision. Our mirror neurons fire the same when we are an observer as they do when we are an actor. The brain actually simulates the experience of what it sees. In other words: 'What I see, I feel.’ This model argues for the importance of physical empathy in vision, an embodied approach anticipated by phenomenology and now buttressed by neuroscience. With this in mind, Hair and Skin presents the body in extremes. The work in the exhibition is visceral, it connects to our phenomenal consciousness, speaks to corporeal experience, and the unruliness of desire. The centrality of the body, the means of communicating its vicissitudes, and the effects (physical, emotional) of this communication are the subject of Hair and Skin. -Isaac Lyles
Works by:
Hans Bellmer
Louise Bourgeois
Günter Brus
Borden Capalino
David Dupuis
Daniel Gordon
Aneta Grzeszykowska
Kineko Ivic
Lionel Maunz
Maria Petschnig
Chloe Piene
Adam Putnam
Aura Rosenberg
Davina Semo
Bobbi Woods
Rona Yefman
Derek Eller Gallery is located at 615 West 27th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues. Summer hours are Tuesday - Friday from 11am - 6pm. For further information or visuals, please contact the gallery at 212.206.6411 or visit www.derekeller.com