an everchanging, everevolving experimentation
melting ice installationfeaturing artist emery gluck with a special performance by halleta
06.24.2023
venia studio: harmony hart + brandon wong + christine ko + keeter ly
artist: emery gluck
poetry + performance: halleta
concept: emery gluck
design: venia studio + emery gluck
creative production: venia studio
ice + drawing: emery gluck
fabric: venia studio
photography + videography: harmony hart
music curation: harmony hart
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venia studio
emery gluck
halleta alemu
Emery Gluck’s installation at VENIA Studio began with a paradoxical pursuit, to realize the meeting point of devotion and transformation. The unfolding exploration is bound by and to chains, ice, unpredictable phenomena, and the color blue.
Informed by molecular bonds, the ancient Vedas, metal, the occult, the water cycle, and every shade-of-blue-feeling Gluck has ever had, A Suspended Blue is a collaborative performance with sensory elements across various media and viewpoints. In A Suspended Blue, blue melting paintings drip from metal chains, dyeing fabric as they undergo a change-of-state. Obscured within the atmospheric blocks of ice, gestural objects slowly reveal themselves as the artwork melts. Liquid turns to ice, ice turns to liquid, and liquid dyes fabric. The viewer is invited to traverse this blue space while witnessing the slow but inevitable shifting image of the installation, the cycle of transformation, and their place within it.
As time passes and the blue of the sky transitions from day to night, the ice melts and enters a unique place of unknowns. To honor this change, Halleta Alemu will perform an Electric Blue poetry reading. A Suspended Blue is fleeting, yet its existence will persist in the pieces Venia will create using the fabric dyed in this installation.
One thing can hold many meanings. Depending on its gauge, intertwining metal can form a cage or protection. Depending on the temperature of its surroundings, water can be a glacier or a hot pink cloud. A Suspended Blue utilizes these media to create a space that holds both the eternal and the ephemeral, utilizing enchantment as a function of truth.