FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ball Nogues, Kendell Carter, Zoe Crosher, Michael Dee
Sherin Guirguis, Todd Gray, Seth Kaufman, Eamon O'Kane
Ebony G. Patterson, Yasmin Than, Keith Walsh
Augusta Wood, Brenna Youngblood
From My Universe: Objects of Desire Part II
Curated by Janet Levy

January 26 - February 25, 2010

See Line Gallery presents a group exhibition ‘From My Universe: Objects of Desire’ curated by Janet Levy
at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Featuring works by Ball Nogues, Kendell Carter, Zoe Crosher, Michael Dee,
Sherin Guirguis, Todd Gray, Seth Kaufman, Eamon O'Kane, Ebony G. Patterson, Yasmin Than, Keith Walsh,
Augusta Wood, and Brenna Youngblood.

The individual perspective is often confused as an all-encompassing view of the world or universe at large.  Because
the individual perspective is the only medium in which we can access the world, humankind has developed the
subconscious notion of “my universe,” which is shaped from each individual’s experience, used as a convention in
order to make sense of the otherwise chaotic stimulus that the greater universe harbors.  

Among the myriad of experiences within each individual universe, there is a place for the natural human phenomenon
of desire.  This ineffable emotion has manifested itself in a number of ways, including their materialization in objects. 
These objects of desire, as subjective as their origins may be, are a physical representation of an
often-incommunicable experience, which translates these subjective sentiments into broadly understandable terms. 
Where words fail to express, objects perform the task of communicating these desires that represent this lusty
emotion figuratively, symbolically, and even literally, offering insight into the minds of the individuals who desire them.  

In the words of Georges Bataille in his work, The object of Desire and the Totality of the Real:
It is painful to dwell on the inadequacy of a description, necessarily awkward and literary, whose final meaning refers
to the denial of any distinct meaning. We can keep this much in mind: that in the embrace the object of desire is
always the totality of being, just as it is the object of religion or art, the totality in which we lose ourselves insofar as
we take ourselves for a strictly separate entity (for the pure abstraction that the isolated individual is, or thinks he is).
In a word, the object of desire is the universe, in the form of she who in the embrace is its mirror, where we
ourselves are reflected. At the most intense moment of fusion, the pure blaze of light, like a sudden flash,
illuminates the immense field of possibility, on which these lovers are subtilized, annihilated, submissive in their
excitement to a rarefaction which they desired.

From Bataille’s notion that the object of desire is the universe, it follows then that the subjective experience of the
universe is a portion of, and interacts directly with everything else, including the plurality of universes devised by
each individual, which in turn blurs the distinction between “my universe” and the universe in its totality.