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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).

Lucy Raven (b. 1977, Tucson, Arizona, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Serpentine Galleries (forthcoming December 2016); Low Relief, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (through November 2016); Lucy Raven, Centre Vox de l’Image Contemporaine, Montréal (2015); Curtains, Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); Hollywood Chop Riding, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); Curtains – Lucy Raven, Interaccess Gallery, Toronto (2014); Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012). Recent group exhibitions include: Le Grand Balcon [The Grand Balcony], La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal (forthcoming July 2016); The Owl’s Legacy and its Discontents, National Gallery of Prague (2015); Over you/you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2015); Art in the Age of Planetary Computation, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2015); Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013); and Materials and Money and Crisis, MUMOK, Vienna (2013); To Look is to Labor, Basilica, Hudson (2013); Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); Dust in the Machine, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe (2012); Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, NY (2010).
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Pilar Corrias is a contemporary art gallery in the heart of London’s West End which opened in 2008. The 3,800 square foot gallery space on Eastcastle Street was designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas and is made up of two exhibition spaces.

Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the central aim of allowing their work to grow both in terms of production of new projects and the making of new exhibitions. Alongside its internal programming, the gallery places great importance on supporting their artists through fostering relationships with public institutions, private foundations, museums, and commissioning bodies.
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