A moiré effect can be understood as "a kind of graphic unconscious: a basic condition of blur, out of which temporary effects of sharpness are occasionally won."¹ Temporary, because as a primarily optical phenomenon, the effect is dependent on two superimposed patterns or screens becoming askew. What becomes apparent through this slight shifting of two-dimensional planes is a previously indiscernible three-dimensional space. Taking the effect as cue through the convergent practices of Liz Deschenes, Eileen Quinlan, Erin Shirreff, and Erika Vogt — this exhibition considers how a relationship between the material and immaterial becomes permissible through the accumulated crossing of singular paths.
1. Shaw, Lytle. The Moiré Effect.
Image: Eileen Quinlan, Acting Out, 2014, courtesy Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
