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Xu Zhen: In Just a Blink of an Eye

November 7, 2007—November 10, 2007

Leading conceptual artist Xu Zhen will produce In Just a Blink of an Eye, a work that at first sight appears to defy possibility. In an empty room at James Cohan Gallery people appear tilted, frozen in time and space, as if ready to topple. Although an optical illusion, this work serves to create anxiety within the viewer that is at once exhilarating, as if the viewer has been liberated from constraints of time and space; while also debilitating in the failure to see the presumed action resolved. The work is performed by migrants recruited from Chinatown, pointing at their liminal status within an undefined space.

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