STUDENT PICKS | Psychic Playgrounds: Reshaping Reality

night, boy standing near a pole in the center of a series of yellow concentric circles

2011

Kim Taedong

Korean

Born 1978

Purchased with the Carroll and Nolen Asian Art Acquisition Fund

Chloe Hou '20 is the first Student Picks curator of the 2017-2018 academic year. She is an Architecture & Urbanism major and member of the class of 2020. Her show explores themes of distortion, perception, dislocation, and fantasy.

For me, creating this “Psychic Playground” is a self-revealing process. The whole show was led by a vague feeling of weirdness that exists in the reality and an idea of distorted space.

How do representations of daily life enact possibilities in other dimensions? What did I want these everyday spaces to be? How can these spaces be distorted under humans’ cerebral manipulation? In other words, through these pieces, I tried to reveal sites of reinvention: moments when reality is recreated in the artist’s perception and when unreal objects begin to interact with everyday events. There are many elements coexisting in this show: chaos, fantasy, ambiguity, encounter, illusion, augmented reality and so on. Sometimes those pieces communicate with one another, but sometimes they can stand alone and speak to something extraordinary in daily life. This is a psychic playground for you to discover an unexpected reality.

room with gilt mirror on left wall, couch at lower left with woman in underclothes seated on it among many pillows, small table near bed, armchair at lower right, table with lamp and objects at mid-right, scroll on wall, window in back center, unmade bed with floral blanket and woman seated on it wearing bra and underpants

^{Laurie Simmons. American, born 1949. Study for Long House (Bedroom with Mirror), 2002. Cibachrome mounted on plexiglass. Purchased with gifts from Laura Resnic Brounstein, class of 1984, and the John W. Cavanaugh Family Foundation (Lisa Cavanaugh, class of 1978). SC 2007.2.}

Student Picks is now part of SCMA's new Thursday Late Nights programming. September's show will be accompanied by a mocktail party and student preview of the special exhibition "A Dangerous Woman: The Art of Honoré Sharrer." Though the Sharrer program begins at 6 pm and is for Smithies exclusively, Student Picks will be open to the public from 4 pm to 8 pm in the Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.

STUDENT PICKS | Psychic Playgrounds: Reshaping Reality

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