Double Date January 19 2025
Ramona Cano-Daly, Lyric Sullivan, Terry Cole, Ivy Lockhart
Well, it is actually more of a blind double date. Two couples face each other. By positioning one couple’s work on the opposite side of the room from the other couple’s, a playful binary is used as a structure to replace people with the artworks they make. Could the replacement of humans by their artworks perhaps be a useful strategy for the artists of these works to simultaneously experience the date as both components of it and audience members to it? The layout of their work also imitates the stereotypical composition of the double date, in which members of each couple sit next to each other and across a table from the opposite couple. This kind of diagrammatic composition instigates comparison in all possible directions. What can result from the confrontation or the meeting of the artworks? Mystery, closeness, meeting…Can you tell what the members of these relationships like about one another? The roles they play with each other? What do harmony and discord mean? If we perceive competition, care, aggression, compassion, where in the artworks do these feelings start from, or where do they travel to when they result from relationships? Without the context of the show’s structure, would all of the works appear as coherent, clashing, strangers, family, or something else? Should we say anything, or should we just look?
Ramona Cano-Daly
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