The solo exhibition in New York, on view through June 25 at New York’s Albertz Benda gallery is an important milestone for Chloe Chiasson. The Brooklyn-based artist is a seeker of what is “in between,” of the gray areas where definitions and their exclusivity are rejected. Identity paradigms are not a sure thing, which is why Chiasson’s works depict communal scenes in which the subjects are an homage to androgynous and queer identities.
Chloe Chiasson reinterprets in the cultural context in which the dialogue about identities takes place; to do so, she does not approach a single technique or material, but chooses a less definable and unpredictable approach. The works look like theatrical sets in which the three-dimensionality of the furniture and certain details of the subjects are combined with black-and-white prints, with an almost handcrafted effect.
Wood; acrylic; resin; foam; LED; porcelain; aluminum but also lipstick among the many elements that help bring the compositions to life.
The one realized by the artist is a world in which freedom takes on a broad meaning that cannot be enclosed in a technique, a physiognomic trait or a single version of movement and fluidity.