TWO ON AND WITH

4 May 2024

By Fan Wu & Jeremy Laing

MIRROR-VASE DOT JAY PEE GEE

Image: Learning how not to know the other, 2020-2023 by Jeremy Laing. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid courtesy of Susan Hobbs.
Image: Self selvage, 2020-2023 by Jeremy Laing. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid courtesy of Susan Hobbs.

All material toggles (in the language of textiles… it shuttles) into the metaphorical, which is no less material even when invisible. No externalities necessary, like the envelope that licks its own seal (a self-affixing stamp, postage played). Check the etymology: the difference between concatenation (Dave the Potter) and entanglement (Alva Noë) is that the former evokes a linked chain while the latter evokes embarrassment. I have been ashamed, even in the heart of the crowd of the people I love, my face a scrawl or smear I catch from the corner of my eye, ascending the pinkly lit stairs to the club, morning bringing dawn upon the partygoers, the towering remnants of my high resolutely staying past primetime.

Image: Threshbeholden, 2023 by Jeremy Laing. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Images: (from left to right) Good/Bad Boy/Girl (For the Lovers), 2020-2023; Contained (container), 2020-2023; Conforming to the shape of the name, 2020-2023 all by Jeremy Laing. Photos by Toni Hafkenscheid courtesy of Susan Hobbs.

ROUND THE STOCKROOM

Images: Installation views of STOCKROOM, 2024 by Jeremy Laing. Photos by Roya DelSol courtesy of the Art Gallery of Burlington.

Image: Installation view of STOCKROOM, 2024 by Jeremy Laing. Photo by Roya DelSol courtesy of the Art Gallery of Burlington.

Images: (from left to right) Detail views of STOCKROOM by Jeremy Laing. Photo by Kirk Lisaj courtesy of the artist; Photo by Roya DelSol courtesy of the Art Gallery of Burlington; Photo by Kirk Lisaj courtesy of the artist.

Image: Installation view of STOCKROOM, 2024 by Jeremy Laing. Photo by Roya DelSol courtesy of the Art Gallery of Burlington.
Image: Installation view of STOCKROOM, 2024 by Jeremy Laing. Photo by Roya DelSol courtesy of the Art Gallery of Burlington.
  1. M.C. Richards, Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person, (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1989), 36.
  2. Brook Ziporyn, Emptiness and Omnipresence, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 205.
  3. STOCKROOM exhibition text written by Art Gallery of Burlington curator Suzanne Carte, 2024.
  4. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, (New York: New Directions, 1964).
  5. Ziporyn, Emptiness and Omnipresence, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 204.

The solo exhibitions by Jeremy Laing, Mirror-vase.jpg ran from September 9 – October 14, 2023 at Susan Hobbs in Toronto, ON; and STOCKROOM ran from January 19 – April 7, 2024 at the Art Gallery of Burlington.

Feature Image: Installation view of Mirror-vage.jpg by Jeremy Laing. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid courtesy of Susan Hobbs.