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Rena Bransten Gallery
January 7 - February 25, 2017Info
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http://www.renabranstengallery.com/
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(415) 982-3292
Reception
January 7, 2017 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker
Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present The Sea Will Come to Kiss Me, a site-specific installation by Los Angeles based artist Bovey Lee. Engendered in response to the contentious rhetoric of the recent election, The Sea Will Come to Kiss Me mirrors Lee’s anxiety as an immigrant, a woman, and a person of color. Entering the gallery, the viewer is confronted with a perforated wall. This barrier is impassable, yet visually permeable; behind it hundreds of paper boats, meticulously folded from the artist’s immigration paperwork, are suspended from the ceiling. Using the wall as a metaphor for exclusion and longing, the gallery and its contents can be seen, but not entered.