The Suspension of Belief
By j.frede
We generally place a certain amount of faith in what we see, especially when it comes to tactile objects in the real world. Suzanne Song forces us to reconsider, even if for just a moment, if this faith is unwarranted. Using the trompe l’oeil technique in a minimalist fashion Song’s paintings and installations achieve space and depth in such a successful manner that even when you view her paintings closely you still have to convince your mind that its merely perspective and not tactile.
Suzanne Song is showing 8 new works at Los Angeles’ Sabina Lee Gallery as part of a two person show along side Amanda Gordon Dunn. These new works were inspired by site-specific installations Song created in recent years.
“In these works, I render shadows along the walls and floors so that, from a specific viewpoint, the shadows converge and delineate an illusory plane that appears to lift off and levitate in space. As the viewer moves around the installations, the illusion deconstructs into flatness. These current paintings present a series of spatial configurations illustrate this deconstruction in two-dimensional space. Whether the spaces invert, reflect, divide, or fold, their relationships between each other instigate optical illusions that alter our sense of depth and create surface tension. Albeit reduced and simple in their appearance, they are configurations that dislocate and multiply our visual perception.” Song explains.
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