Valeska Soares
Brazilian, 1957- (active USA)

Any Moment Now ..., 2014
365 vintage dust jackets mounted on linen panels and 4 vintage library ladders
Panel sizes: 10 x 8 in., 12 x 12 in., 14 x 11 in., Overall Size: 15' x 35'



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"There is no way to look at something and not invest it with subjectivity." - Valeska Soares

COMMENTS

The large-scale installation Any Moment Now... gives the exhibition its title. It consists of 365 unique dust jackets whose titles reference time. The book covers include literary classics, plays, and pulp fiction; from Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Morning After to Now or Never. The different circumstances to which each of the titles alludes create a poetic meta text about the unfathomable event that is time. The 365 dust jackets are mounted on linen and hung salon style, covering the entire gallery. The exhibition space becomes a subjective library of keeping time and the physicality of its passage. Any Moment Now follows Soares’s investigation of the potential of language as a formal and conceptual aid in the creation of unstable narratives. Text and illustration, image and abstraction, design and typography all become a part of a thoughtful examination of continuously shifting narratives.

- 11R Gallery, 11 Rivington Street, New York, NY, 2014
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