'Power Structures: Leslie Hewitt, Karel Martens, Zia Haider Rahman' on view at P!
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'Power Structures: Leslie Hewitt, Karel Martens, Zia Haider Rahman' on view at P!
Karel Martens, Untitled, 2014. Letterpress on found registration card, 8 × 6 in. (200 × 150 mm).



NEW YORK, NY.- P! is presenting Power Structures, a three-person exhibition featuring Leslie Hewitt, Karel Martens, and Zia Haider Rahman. Additive and exponential, the show offers an oblique look at acute questions troubling our political moment.

Leslie Hewitt exhibits three works: a black horizontal line bisecting the viewer’s gaze and the space it circumscribes; a color photograph that collapses archival documentation and personal memory; and a white sheet metal sculpture from her current project at the Studio Museum Harlem, which evokes paper through its planar folds.

Printed on discarded Belgian identity records, a new body of letterpress monoprints by Karel Martens extends his signature technique of overprinting metal forms on found materials. Through this combination of figure and ground, past and present, Martens’ layering reactivates the remainders of a vast bureaucratic archive.

Zia Haider Rahman’s remarkable novel, In Light of What We Know, resonates throughout the exhibition. A meditation on colonialism, epistemology, friendship, mathematics, and more, the book will be on sale here at cost. Through this economic gesture, the space reframes itself as a distribution point without profit, a single position from which timely ideas may multiply their dividends into the world.

P! is a multidisciplinary exhibition space located in New York’s Chinatown. Directed and curated by Prem Krishnamurthy, P! proposes an experimental space of display in which the radical possibilities of disparate disciplines, historical periods, and modes of production rub elbows. A free-wheeling combination of project space, commercial gallery, and Mom-and-Pop-Kunsthalle, P! engages with presentation strategies and models to emphasize rupture over tranquility, interference over mere coexistence, transparency over obfuscation, and passion over cool remove.

Since opening in September 2012, the space and its exhibitions with Åbäke, Thomas Brinkmann, Katarina Burin, Oliver Laric, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Karel Martens, Brian O’Doherty, Sarah Oppenheimer, Amie Siegel, Societé Réaliste, and others have been covered by publications ranging from Artforum, Art in America, ArtReview, and Modern Painters to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Observer, Surface, and Design Observer.










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