ATTENTION:
LOCKER: MAGIC RECTANGLES
PEARL C. HSIUNG: Yellowstoner
February 25 to March 13, 2021
Screening Thursday, February 25, 6pm
Screening link, 2-25-21, 6pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83697318133?pwd=VWlDNVhXZU5yRnBoT0xsd2JxSVB4QT09
*Video link:
Yellowstoner, 2014 (17 minutes 30 seconds)
MAGIC RECTANGLES is pleased to present PEARL C. HSIUNG: Yellowstoner, virtually at John Marshall High School. This is Hsiung’s second presentation with LOCKER. In 2019, LOCKER opened with an inaugural exhibition of Hsiung’s painting installation Wild Radish, Coyote Brush, Baja Sage, Capitolocene in a customary stack of student lockers at Marshall High School.
Yellowstoner is a travelogue, guide, and nature mémoire. The film’s protagonist is found in a setting which summons the imagined landscapes of Hsiung’s early paintings and predicts the abstracted naturalisms of her more recent work.
The protagonist’s body slowly merges with the landscape as an atonal soundtrack takes form. This body disappears, and the rhythms of the track shift to now merge the terrain with the rhythms of the body.
A roiling landscape of abstracted time moves by fits and starts. Forward. In reverse. Time’s passing and flow are both universally understood and perplexing. With Yellowstoner, Hsiung’s geysers give a representation of time moving both in a line and looping back on itself in cycles: anticipating, emerging, building, decaying.
John Marshall High School is a comprehensive public high school that provides high-quality, creative and rigorous instruction for students in a diverse community.
LOCKER is located at John Marshall High School. MAGIC RECTANGLES is available via digital platforms. A screening will be held Thursday, February 25, at 6:00pm. Following the screening, work may be viewed through a link at www.justlocker.com.
John Marshall High School
3939 Tracy St., Los Angeles, 90027
Contact:
Mark Roeder
mroeder74@gmail.com
*Watch in total darkness, with good sound.
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