Triple Trouble









Triple Trouble presents a series of works concerned with minimal difference. The term minimal difference refers to the pulse of difference separating one moment from the next, the continuous transformation of objects in time, the modulation of color, and the wavering constitution of one’s self from moment to moment. Minimal difference is a way to think of the wavering edges of things considered as an events. This show asks: If every thing is in a constant state of becoming different from itself, can an entity ever be considered complete? And if no thing ever achieves a “true” state, what possibilities are suggested by this aggressive refusal to accept a natural state for things?
Many of the works in “Triple Trouble” suggest a continuity as a “ground” to read this “figure” of minimal difference. A continuous shelf, beginning and ending at the front door, outlines the entire gallery, in a sense bringing the entirety of Kansas’s eccentric floor plan into the picture from any single vantage point. We can only see part of the shelf from any given place, but our awareness draws us beyond our position, always beyond our particular place — and, the shelf returns: how has it changed in its passage?
The shelf is punctuated by three near-identical lamps taking the form of Matisse’s metronome installed adjacent to the front window of the gallery. The light of the lamps is unwavering, an inverse clock to register the changing atmosphere filtered in from the outside.
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