For the Asian American Studies brown bag lunch talk series, Assistant Professor Gina Osterloh, Department of Art, shares photographs and steel text works recently exhibited for her solo exhibition her demilitarized zone in Manila, Philippines at Silverlens Galleries. her demilitarized zone is a steel plate with welded text, the beginning stanza of a poem seared on steel bars scattered across a gallery floor, and the title of Gina Osterloh’s recent solo exhibition at Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Philippines. Her demilitarized zone does not heal – instead lays bare our current cultural moment on a global scale– scarred, seeking touch, in need of acute love. At once legible and illegible, words wrap, keloid, and mutate symbols of power. Wrapped in HDZ, are photographs such as Pressing Against Looking, which depict long black poles pressing into eyes, activating the physical and conceptual pressure (and pleasure) of looking and being looked at. Gina Osterloh will also provide a brief introduction to early photo tableau or “anti-portrait” works which refute preconceived and projected notions of race and gender through operations of camouflage and mimesis.
This event is free and open to the public.
