TIME AGAIN, AS WATER

Chinatown Soup is pleased to present a curated exhibition by Dillon + Lee, featuring works by Steven MacIver, Mami Kosemura, Katsumi Hayakawa, and Humans since 1982. Together, the artworks explore the notion of time, made evident through the repetition and rhythm in the artists' process and the works' content. This exhibition is on view from October 22 - November 3, 2019.

Steven MacIver believes that drawing should be viewed as a language, with all the subtleties and idiosyncrasies of meaning, structure and syntax. His research and practice focuses on developing the linguistics of drawing: its role in the mediation of communication between the artist and the viewer, evoking real, remembered and imagined environments. MacIver’s work has developed these concepts through the investigation of mark-making, exploring the diversity of methods through which line may be made. MacIver was born in the Orkney Islands and completed his BA in Fine Arts at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and his MFA at the Slade School of Art. Following his graduation in 2004, MacIver was honored with the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome. MacIver has received numerous awards and grants and has exhibited extensively in the UK where his work is held in several collections. He currently lives and works outside Oxford.

Mami Kosemura’s photographs and animations refer to traditional subjects taken from classical European motifs and Japanese painting. Drape depicts a dinner table arranged in the style of a Dutch still life painting with its contents covered with a large wet fabric. The fabric, while partially covering what is below, call attention to the objects’ form. While the table may be familiar to some, to Kosemura, they are foreign, and while dining might be a way to bring together a community, it is also a source of alienation. Mami Kosemura (b. 1979 Japan) is based in Tokyo and received a PhD. in Painting and M.A. in Mural in Tokyo University of the Arts.

Katsumi Hayakawa’s three-dimensional paper frameworks portray the loneliness of the modern city. He believes that urban construction embodies “the absence of existence, the absence of nothingness and the absence of the absence of absence”, and his inclusion of metallic materials evokes images of microchips and circuit boards, probing the relationship between the real and the virtual, what is natural and what is fabricated. Katsumi Hayakawa (b. 1970, Tochigi, Japan) received his BFA from Nihon University College of Arts, Tokyo and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1998.

Humans since 1982 is an artist-led studio based in Stockholm, founded in 2009 by Per Emanuelsson (b.1982, Sweden) and Bastian Bischoff (b.1982, Germany). Their work is driven by their interest in emergent properties, transience, rhythm and the mysterious allurement that derives from it. Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff both received their MFA in Design from HDK, School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg Sweden.

Dillon + Lee is a contemporary, cross-disciplinary art gallery. Through artist representation, exhibitions, and collaboration, Dillon + Lee is most noted for supporting artists working outside the Western canon and disciplines not often associated with traditional art galleries such as architecture, design, music, scent, and theater.