Jo-ey Tang (b. 1978, Hong Kong, CN) is a Hong Kong-born American artist, curator, and writer living and working between Paris, France, and Columbus, Ohio. For the past decade, Tang has attuned to the conditions of his life, its constraints and limits of energy-time, as a person, and in the ecology in the field of art, as curator of art institutions, writer, and communicator with artists, to shape his non-studio and non-practicing art practice. With an ethos of non-output, Tang only generates artworks on the occasion of invitations, where concretion from past exhibitions are often dragged into the present as a kind of ephemeral anti-ephemerality. He insistently destabilizes the status of artworks and the status of documentation, as a moving target that could take the forms of photography, language, and objects. For example, photographic works might be generated by using sculptural elements or documentation from previous exhibitions, only to be broken apart into disparate images and works, and to be built up again to generate new iterations. The movement between conflict and freedom – whose and which work, what forms does it takes, and how - is ongoing and not meant to be resolvable.

Thomas Fougeirol (b. 1965, Paris, FR) is a French artist living and work between Paris, France, and New York. Fougeirol applies layers of gesso and oil paint on canvases, which takes months to dry, and on and into them he throws debris, trash, and assorted objects collected from the streets of New York, where the artist keeps a studio. Dried-up sedimentation of paint-cakes lodged in the bottom of the buckets are employed as both mark-making devices and self-referential paint-object. These deposits are re-deposited on and into the fresh layers of still-drying canvases. Dead paint meets fresh paint. Sometimes these paintings register gravitational pull, and sometimes they trick the eye into pulling them back up. They operate across multiple coordinates, pivoting between flatness and depth, between what they look like and what they might be.

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