Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

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			Peres Projects is pleased to present Walking the In-Between, Cece Philips’ (b. 1996 in London, UK) second solo exhibition with the gallery, and her first in Asia.

 

Five months have passed since Cece Philips’ previous exhibition with Peres Projects. Or maybe just a single night. The characters we left in the twilight of Berlin now emerge in the dawn light of Seoul. With Walking the In-Between, Philips continues to explore liminal spaces, times, and situations. She invites us to take long strolls through a composite cosmopolis reminiscent of London, Florence and California, draped in the hues of the blue hour, and inhabited by suited women. At this time between day and night—between dog and wolf, as a French expression goes—a mysterious atmosphere lingers over each tableau. We observe each scene from its periphery—through an open window, from the opposite sidewalk, from behind a bush or a sofa—, Cece Philips deliberately placing us in a voyeuristic position. While gazing is usually welcome and anticipated in a gallery, here our glances become “clandestine,” as writer and researcher Rolake Osabia writes in the short story accompanying the exhibition, entitled “Please Follow the Yellow Light. Complementing the nine paintings that comprise Walking the In-Between, Osabia’s text offers an interpretation of Philips’ work, narrating the wanderings of an anonymous observer, whose perspective could be that of the artist just as well as the viewer.
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