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His 2007 work, Imagine a World Without America, calls upon the viewer to participate in the titular thought experiment and contemplate that absence. While Kim’s flag mounts a physical intervention into contested space, Scott uses the visual tropes of cartography to question boundaries by proposing alternative geographies. Like Byron Kim, Dread Scott undermines the notion of political borders by examining their logic and legibility, or lack thereof. While the function of a flag is used for claiming land, Kim’s work is contingent upon blurring these demarcations, as the edge of the flag merges into the sky. Using the language of abstract painting, Kim confuses subject and ground, conflating the relationship between a flat image and real space. Its installation called into question physical and political borders at a site where division is most evident. This flag was originally installed only a few meters from the Korean Demilitarized Zone checkpoint. Visitors to 26th Street will encounter Byron Kim’s Sky Blue Flag anchored to the gallery’s facade, blending into the backdrop of the sky. The gallery will host opening receptions on Thursday, January 10 from 6-8 pm at 533 West 26th Street and Saturday, January 12 from 5-7 pm at 291 Grand Street. Borders will be on view from January 10 through February 23 in the gallery’s Chelsea and Lower East Side spaces. In sculpture and installation-based work, borders act to define and destabilize the relationship of the object in space, and negotiate the engagement between the viewer and the work of art.īorders brings together artists who work using a diverse range of materials and processes including Etel Adnan, Edgardo Aragón, Yael Bartana, Jorge Méndez Blake, Mounir Fatmi, Susan Hefuna, Federico Herrero, Yun-Fei Ji, Byron Kim, Mernet Larsen, Sol LeWitt, Candice Lin, Teresa Margolles, Misheck Masamvu, Jordan Nassar, Katie Paterson, The Propeller Group, Matthew Ritchie, Hiraki Sawa, Dread Scott, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Elias Sime, Mikhael Subotzky, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Tomaselli, Hank Willis Thomas and XU ZHEN®. In painting, formal borders call attention to the work’s nature both as an image and an object, and provide compositional structure. This exhibition will seek to create a framework and a dialogue about borders as both places of productive exchange and barriers of exclusion.īorders visually define space utilizing form, color, and line to separate, delineate and frame fields of visual perception. In the face of rising nationalism and the growing global refugee crisis, borders across the world are tightening and also unraveling.

They define both belonging and otherness. Borders are synonymous with state power, sovereignty and national identity. James Cohan is pleased to present Borders, a group exhibition that considers how contemporary artists engage with political, ideological and formal borders.

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