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In You Is The Illusion Of Each Day
by Latitude 28 Gallery
Location: Latitude 28 Gallery
Date: 13 Oct - 5 Nov 2011

The world is as much inside us as it is outside. 'In You is the Illusion of Each Day' draws its title and thematics from a poem by Pablo Neruda, who understood our deep human need to feel intimately and inextricably connected to the world outside of each of us.

At the nexus of the binaries of the material and the ideational; the organic and humanly constructed; appearance and so-called “reality;” lies a powerful force that weaves these antinomies together, binding them into meaningful, coherent wholes, and making them as much a part of us as we are a part of the world in which they are anchored.

That force is imagination and the illusions it generates.

Erasing the clear dividing line between these binaries, the power of illusion reveals itself to be the very stuff of life that animates the inanimate, giving meaning to mere material, and making the dumb Things of this world into something far more than simple Objects. Through the power of illusion, which resides in each of our imaginations, the world of mute, lifeless Things becomes a space of Life, becomes our own, takes root inside of us and thus becomes a constitutive part of us.

Far from being escapist denials of the world and life, illusions, understood in the spirit expressed in Pablo Neruda’s poetry, breathe life into everything around us, and function as the connective tissue joining us with our external world.

Illusion, understood this way, is no longer reducible to a signifier of falsity, but rather becomes a site where the “real” is fabricated by each of us, individually and jointly. Whatever happens “out there” only becomes “real” to each of us when it exists inside us as well. Thus, illusion, and its power to enable us to connect the inside and the outside, is one of the great powers innate to human beings.

Yet with great power, comes great risks, and sometimes our illusions become delusions, or we imagine ourselves in ways that are out of sync with the rest of the world, causing rupture and, ironically, sometimes disillusionment and disconnection.

How to fold the world into ourselves and ourselves into the world is one of the integral challenges of the human condition.

© 2011 Maya Kóvskaya. All Rights Reserved.

About Maya KÓVSKAYA, PhD

Maya Kóvskaya (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2009) is a Delhi-based scholar, art critic, curator, and writer with over a decade of experience in China. Some of her most recent exhibitions in the capacity of curator and/or critic include: 'Excrescence,' in Mumbai (curator/critic, India, 2011), Reflected on Air: Zhong Biao, in San Francisco (critic, USA, 2011), 'A Pair of Lungs, A Lack of Faith: Vijai Patchineelam Solo Exhibition in New Delhi (critic, India, 2010), 'Earth' (critic, India, 2010); and ‘A Cry from the Narrow Between: Tejal Shah & Han Bing’ in New Delhi (critic, India, 2010).
Maya has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the Renmin University of China, in Beijing, and Beijing Capital Normal University. Her writings appear regularly in numerous international art catalogues, academic volumes, and magazines, such as Art India,Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Art Review, Flash Art, Contemporary, Art Concerns, Take On Art, Art ETC, Art Concerns, Art Post, Art Map, Mayday Magazine, Art iT, Eyemazing: International Contemporary Photography Magazine, and /positions: east asia cultures critique/.
Maya was the 2010 Critic in Residence at the Khoj International Artists Association ‘In Context: Public. Art. Ecology’ program. She recently received the Inaugural 2010 Yishu Award for Critical Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art and was selected for the 2011 Young Curators Hub in Calcutta.

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