The Vestibule is proud to be featured as a special project at Spring/Break LA, a carefully curated fair adjacent to Freize and other exciting art events. We are traveling to install Bowers, a dual site-specific installation by Chris Lael Larson and Philippe Hyojung Kim,
A bower entices with its exterior, inviting the visitor into a retreat, a private place, a garden of Eden or of unearthly delight. The bowerbird takes material from his environment and weaves a three-dimensional collage, meant to attract. The bower’s exterior hints at the luscious nature of its interior.
Kim and Larson build bowers of paper and plastic – three-dimensional collage installations. Like Kurt Schwitter’s Merzbau grottos, the collages are made from detritus in the artists’ environments. More than assemblages, these works are carefully crafted. Their chosen media reflect the detritus around us: Plastic and paper are the most and least lasting materials that shape contemporary life; they are vibrant matter, to use Jane Bennett’s terms, shaping the interior and exterior of human and nonhuman world.
image above: left, Chris Lael Larson Untitled 4744: From the Series Beginner Nudes; right: Philippe Hyojung Kim(Un) Earthly Delights (#32)
Urethane casts, porcelain casts, and vinyl on paper, 2023. 44.5”x30”x2” (unframed). Framed on Request $3,500 (unframed)/ $4,500 (framed; frame upon request)