The Troubled Waters of Permeability!

The Troubled Waters of Permeability!

January 19 - February 19, 2007

David Bronson, Jeremy Bronson, Soyeon Cho, Electronic Shadow, Chitra Ganesh, Pamela Hadfield, Paul Hoppe, Nora Krug, Fay Ku, Caroline McCarthy, David McQueen, Patrick Martinez, Yazid Oulab and Géraldine Pastor-Lloret

Parkers Box is pleased to present a group show curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin entitled The Troubled Waters of Permeability!. It features 14 international artists from Algeria, France, Germany, Ireland, and Korea, alongside American artists with diverse backgrounds including China, India and Europe.

Permeability between fields as ostensibly opposed as art and science, or as contrasting as technology and illustration, seems to provide an increasingly significant arena in current contemporary art practice. As technology, for example, has become a necessary and obsessive component of our present lives, playing successively benevolent or negative roles, it is not surprising that it has inspired much artistic creation and reflection. Since the 1970's, artists have been striving to make everyday life more than merely a subject by becoming an indivisible part of art if not an artform in itself. "Art is what makes life more interesting than art" said Robert Filliou. At the same time, narrative has been slowly re-entering the realm of fine arts since the 1980's after having been somewhat banished for more than half a century. In order to explore storytelling under new forms, fine art borrows among others, the efficient tools of illustration and moviemaking. Crossing boundaries between genres and fields also seems to proceed from a recent democratization of art, particularly of certain media such as photography and video but equally from the explosion of availability of an ever greater array of affordable possibilities and choices in our modern societies.

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