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AKINA COX and JOSEPH IMHAUSER
Proust, Lye’s and Videotape
by j.frede
Los Angeles based artists Akina cox and Joseph Imhauser present Lifesize a new exhibition that explores social interactions and shared experience, paralleling historical events through their own personal relationships and encounters. The exhibit features sculpture, video, paintings and photographic documents that “aims to investigate the overlooked or underappreciated associations between people, places, and incidents” as stated in the press release for the exhibition.
“The concept for Lifesize came out of a collaborative project I have been working on with Akina Cox for the past year called Lyeberry. Its main focus is to personalize the way information is shared from one party to the next. We both have an interest in collaboration and how influence can alter our own thoughts and experiences, with that in mind we both had been producing artworks that were exploring how voices outside of our own could be used within our practice.” Imhauser stated in a recent interview about the exhibition.
For Lifesize Joseph Imhauser presents Frank and Lina Nonaka, an installation of three parts that takes a look subtle look at the history and lives of an elderly couple; Frank and Lina Nonaka. The piece began with an interview with the couple, documenting their memories and collecting stories from their lives. The interviews are presented in parallel to a video of the couple having lunch with their oldest grandson and the artist himself.
Imhauser explains, “Frank and Lina Nonaka started out as a home video to document Frank and Lina’s lives, a personal archive of their memories and experiences. While editing this interview with Frank and Lina, I thought about how the earnestness of this documentation can alter the way an audience accesses the information they are being offered. With that in mind, I produced the other pieces, a video documenting a lunch their grandson and I made and ate with them, and a composite photograph of all the snapshots and ephemera found in one shoebox in a closet housing family photos.”
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