In Gravity’s Pull, Deschenes turns to the effects of screen imagery on sensation and consciousness. She works with an alkali-aluminosilicate glass, one of the screen universe’s preferred materials, and renders it opaque. Indeed, apart from various intensities of light dimming through the lush monochrome surface of the works, no constituted image seems able to show through, as if by willed resistance of the glass sheet. There is no information to be digested apart from the sheer presence of ultra-thin, mobile-like objects floating in space, positioned at a more or less short distance from the walls behind them. Arranged in rhythmic line formations, they duplicate and sometimes extend the pre-existing wall structure of the galleries, at once suspending and intensifying the architectural impact on the viewer.
Miguel Abreu Gallery
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