
Pilar Corrias Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition by Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven, Wild Sync & Weak Locals.
In the ground floor gallery, Sam Lewitt activates custom fabricated copper-clad plastic heating circuits by maxing out the electrical energy available for lighting. Etched out of exposed photolithographic emulsion, the copper lines that heat up on these films trace-out pull quotes from the lexicon of infrastructurally administered flexibility.
In the lower gallery, Lucy Raven recreates the industrial rotocaster as a system for projecting light. Two wall-mounted structures, Casters, 2016, rotate 575w lamps in mirrored trajectories, illuminating the interior of the gallery in a figure X.
Sam Lewitt (b. 1981, Los Angeles, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Less Light Warm Words, Swiss Institute, New York (through July 2016); More Heat than Light, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2016), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2015); Verbrannte Erde: Second Salvage, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (2014); Casual Encounters, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2014); International Corrosion Fatigue, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2013). Recent group exhibitions include: Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); No Shadows in Hell, Pilar Corrias, London (2015); nature after nature, curated by Susanne Pfeffer, Fridericianum, Kassel (2014); Geographies of Contamination, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2014); and Materials and Money and Crisis, co-organised with Richard Birkett, MUMOK, Vienna (2014); Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012).















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