shooting blanks BY GINA OSTERLOH
PRESENTED BY GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS IN CELEBRATION OF THE 60TH ANNIVERSAY OF THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM IN THE PHILIPPINES
OPENING RECEPTION 6 PM, MAY 3/SATURDAY
Exhibition runs through June 4/Wednesday
Shooting Blanks is based upon the impotence and futility of language and the desire to connect. In each of her lush, mostly large-scale photographs, Gina Osterloh treats the body and its surrounding environment as symbiotic physical and psychological spaces. In many of her photographs, the room itself is treated as a second skin, created through hundreds of paper cuts. In Blind Rash, the room is constructed from hundreds of pink skin-scale or camera shutter like shapes. A young woman poses for the camera, yet her eyes are covered, cutting basic means of perception and denying access to the viewer. In Cut (Pairs) two figures on all fours slouch over, as their bodies articulate the same paper cuts as the surrounding room, yet only partially match in color. It is through this misarticulation via mimicry in language, that slippage occurs, and restrained desires misfire. While previous photography insisted upon the use of her own body, Shooting Blanks marks a pivotal shift - as Osterloh’s work expands to incorporate other bodies and in some photographs, allows the body to disappear altogether, leaving the room blank.
Gina Osterloh Lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Manila. She graduated her MFA in Studio Art from University of California Irvine in 2007, and her BA in Media Studies from De Paul University in Chicago in 1996. She is currently in Manila as a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship. She has been represented in major exhibitions in the U.S., Austria, Portugal, Spain and the Philippines where she took part in the Galleon Trade exhibition curated by Jennifer Wofford at Magnet Gallery-Katipunan, and Trauma Interrupted at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, both in 2006. Shooting Blanks is Gina Osterloh’s first solo exhibition in the Philippines.
GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS
124A Maginhawa St., Teachers Village East, Quezon City
Phone: 0918-9457387 E-mail: greenpapayaartprojects@gmail.com
Gallery Hours: Wed/Thurs/Fri 6 pm-11 pm, Open Sat/Sun by appointment
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RSVP/Phone: 812-0945 & 812-5890 Fax: 812-0822
Supported by the FULBRIGHT PROGRAM administered by the
Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF)
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