About

Grace Chang’s work plays with visual hierarchies by flattening and distorting figures and objects. Visual cues invoke a feeling of artifice and suggest they are more like actors and props inhabiting roles in a play, rather than literal representations. While absurdity or formal qualities such as harsh lighting might elicit an immediate (even familiar) response, the work also rewards a slow viewer with more obscured, unclear ties between the elements in each image. These reveal the initial collaging process that recontexualizes objects onto stage-like planes: folds of a plastic sheet act as a sky or backdrop in one painting, while spindles of a courting chair transform into large columns in another. The logic of depth in each piece is fickle and uncanny; it prompts viewers to bridge the gaps and imagine what kind of reality might allow some of these spaces to exist.

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