Windows, closed with broken panes, augment quartered interactions. If you stand close enough sometimes it’s difficult to figure out if you’re looking in or out. The intimate scenes squeeze small dramas into their shallow space. A cat, since expired, is coddled by a spermatozoon ghost. A distraught snowman knocks on a window, desperate to get inside. In another, a ghost is stopping in the doorway to take a long glance before finally leaving.
Although linked by proximity, these works span the distance between the pre and post-pandemic world. Their reflections invert and distance each felt moment, blurring the timeline of events and instances. Neglect is measured against happiness, indifference against a joke. The spectrum is run ragged, self-populating infinitely in the absence of an audience.
Philip Hinge (b. 1988) lives and works in NY. Hinge has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has had solo presentations at Final Hot Desert (Goblin Valley, Utah), Stepsister (NY, NY), Felix Art Fair (presented by Brennan & Griffin (NY, NY), Marvin Gardens (Ridgewood, NY), Plague Space (Krasnodar, RU), Ungefahr 5 (Cologne, DE), and 106 Green (NY, NY). In addition to his art practice, Hinge operates and curates two project spaces; Catbox Contemporary (Ridgewood, NY) and darkZone (NJ).
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