Ortega y Gasset Projects Brooklyn, New York, USA

Ortega y Gasset Projects (OyG), 363 3rd Ave, Ground Floor, Old American Can Factory, 11215 Brooklyn, United States of America oygprojects@gmail.com | www.oygprojects.com

Ortega y Gasset Projects presents:

Pleasure Tense: Cameron Granger, Eric Hibit, Anastasia Komar, Leeza Meksin, Padma Rajendran, Adam Liam Rose, Winnie Sidharta, Kate Stone, Lauren Whearty

What is pleasure in the face of the disasters that we are facing today? The works in Pleasure Tense activate the haptic sensuality of touch, while wrestling with the intensity, terror and tension that surrounds us right now everywhere we look. Punning on the double meaning of ‘tense’ as in verb tense and tense as in becoming stretched tight or rigid due to anxiety or nervousness, OyG Projects culls together a show of painting, drawing, video, textiles, collage and sculptural works to highlight these contradictions.

Anastasia Komar and Kate Stone, ‘Cleanroom’, 4k stop-motion and hand-drawn animation, 4 min 21 sec, edition of 3, 2021 Adam Liam Rose, ‘Soragim’, HD video of durational performance, 1 h 45 min, edition of 5, 2013 Leeza Meksin, ‘Split’, sun-bleached neoprene and oil paint on stretched canvas, 27.9 x 35.5 cm, 2019–21, photo: Alan Geho Eric Hibit, ‘Purple Cloudy Oyster’, acrylic on panel, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, 2018