SUPERSONIC ART: Felicia Chiao’s “Strange Pain.”
At this time on see at Harman Tasks in New York City right until January 7th, 2023 is artist Felicia Chiao’s solo exhibition, “Strange Suffering.”
Using the familiar and skewing it in surreal strategies, Felicia Chiao
illustrates painful human emotion by generating visual representations of inner thoughts that can usually only be knowledgeable. Regardless of whether it be a space with no home windows or the darkish bulbous personification of internal wrestle, the “Strange Pain” referenced in the course of the exhibition is evident.
Chiao’s autobiographical get the job done chooses to emphasis on vulnerable facets of what it usually means to be human. She produces worlds in which our worry, stress and melancholy surface as bodily as they really feel. Given this new actual physical variety, they are illustrated as amorphous blobs sitting down on our laps pinning us down underneath the excess weight of depression, as smothering stress and anxiety looming close to the upcoming corner, and as a pit in our abdomen when we can not discover the motivation to be effective as witnessed in Lamp Gentle, pictured over.
Loneliness persists all over this human body of get the job done, the artist uses singular lights shone on her figures in the course of night time scenes and shadows cast throughout working day scenes to essentially isolate them from the rest of their globe. Others are found gazing by way of their window at an outside the house environment that has grow to be international to them, or struggling to find the will to try to eat breakfast, these solitary beings obtain them selves alone with their feelings.
Felicia Chiao states, “Weird Soreness is about the tiny, undefinable pains you in some cases truly feel when almost nothing is precisely incorrect. It can occur as that ache you feel from a unhappy tune or that fleeting wave of despair that comes about you though ready for water to boil. It can be the tightness in your chest right before a social function or that imprecise sense of guilt you at times get, even although you have completed nothing improper. Peculiar pains are tricky to set into terms but this overall body of get the job done does its ideal to discover them.”
Regardless of the ever current emotions of despair, there are also lovely moments that glow by means of and offer you an optimistic outlook. A tree growing out of a constructing towards the solar, lushly blooming bouquets, and fridge magnets reminding the viewer that “Its ok”.
