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Har-Prakash KhalsaThe Hole Project

September 11 - October 2, 1999

The provocative black and white photographs of body orifices that make up The Hole Project create a typology in which potentially loaded imagery is presented simply and intensely for our aesthetic and spiritual consideration. For the artist, the holes are spiritual places, locations of reception and emanation from which energies are released and received; places where a soul, in a body, may contact the world around it, but by means of intense close-up and cropping, the details of ears, eyes, mouths, nostrils, nipples, vaginas, penises, anuses and the anterior fontanelle also become intriguing, tonally rich abstract compositions.

As a project, these works provoke new understandings and lead us to question our subjective experience of the human body. We are incited to change how we see (hear, taste, breathe...) and to contemplate how we choose to perceive these openings. And we are left wondering how we could enjoy looking at something which we never thought could be beautiful.

Artcore will be showing these works at
Art Forum Berlin, September 29 - October 4, 1999

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 5:00
For information, telephone (416) 920 3820

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