Lin Lisberger: Gravity
Lin Lisberger, Who’s the Victim? (Rocket)
June 11, 2020 — September 12, 2020
About The Show
“But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice — guessed and refused to believe — that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children.” - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
The word gravity comes from a Latin root meaning “weight, heaviness, pressure.” Gravity can denote seriousness or dignity. It can also refer to the weakest fundamental force in physics, yet is the force that defines the very structure of the universe. It is the attractive force between two objects or, perhaps more precisely, the impact two objects have on one another as each bends the fabric of space and time. Whichever meaning is used and whatever the underlying reality of that meaning, gravity is something we all feel.
This exhibition combines work from two of Lin Lisberger’s series: Who’s the Victim? and Ladder and Bridge, each of which addresses forces that we feel but often do not understand or cannot escape. The work from Who’s the Victim? confronts the viewer with objects in opposition, often at the exact moment in time that each is impacting the other. What forces have brought the objects together, and what compels their interactions?
The pieces from Ladder and Bridge explore movement through space. They twist upwards in timeless forms as if they are trying to escape the conflict present in Who’s the Victim? and perhaps even the binds of gravity. Yet the structure required just to extend a few feet off the ground is evident.
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