Eckel
My blogs
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Artist |
| Location | San Francisco, Berlin |
| Introduction | As a an artist whose interdisciplinary practice centers around the disciplines of painting and drawing, Kahlon also enacts a careful interrogation of the boundaries and assumptions which form them. This interrogation is made along the fault lines of colonial histories and the globalized present. Approaching the mediums of painting and drawing from a conceptual and material standpoint, her work often confronts the viewer with the implication of their own body in the production of meaning addressing the intimate and emotional impact of how power is inscribed on and by the body, in part through a level of performativity inherent in the work’s form and in the viewer’s relation to it, which exceeds the traditional bounds of how painting is understood. It is a continual play between the subject and object, a play of simultaneity and contradiction, an ambivalent belief in and deconstruction of painting, the image and the larger field of representation. This ambivalence resulting in a continual reconstitution and disavowel of painting and the image is informed by her interrogation of the ideological positions of representation as they are linked to forms of racial and colonial authority. |
| Interests | Definitions of the Grotesque, Abjection, Disgust, Aesthetics, Politics, Humor, Liberatory Laughter, Social and Biological Difference |