BACKWARD INTO LIGHT

The Flow Chart Foundation

Backward into Light is an exhibition made up of a series of lo-tech sculptural works created from lumber, concrete, paneling, steel, carpet and ratchet straps. The works are stand-ins for our bodies as they propel themselves through space. Compressing, bending, slumping, shrugging, kneeling and pirouetting are ways that our body moves with - and through - the space around it. The centerpiece, SILVER WINGS, introduces the possibility of flight to these quotidian postures. The sculptures are both casual representations of and enduring monuments to those fleeting moments. They are the layered instances found within constant adjustment. The exhibition’s title, Backward into Light, is a line taken from the 1975 John Ashbery poem, The One Thing That Can Save America. The Flow Chart Foundation houses the John Ashbery archives and is located in Hudson, NY.