Hyeree Ro: Sculpture MFA '21

flour hat (floor) unapologetically insists on and rewards close attention. Each element of the installation is in dialogue with another element; to walk in and around the whole of it (careful not to step onto the flour!) is to set off a series of significations.

It is montage-like, this associative process, yet never so simplistic as to “add up” to something definitive.

Like geopolitical zones of contact, which the literary critic Mary Louise Pratt once defined as spaces where “cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today,” the different forms that collectively make up flour hat (floor) each differently organize relations in (psychogeographic) space. To insert one’s self into these zones of contact is to allow oneself to enter a re-enchanted spatial system. Continue reading >>

Text by Swagato Chakravorty