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DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Locke’s Passing Through is a two-channel video installation, 
 projected on opposing walls of the gallery, exploring the body as a 
 sculptural object in relationship to architectural space and the material 
 power-dynamics that organize and sustain lived experience.\n\nAt the outset 
 of the video, one side of the installation shows the minimalist, neutral 
 plane of a white wall, while the other shows the wooden studs and unpainted 
 drywall on the other side. The artist enters the frame with the white wall 
 and begins hitting it repeatedly with a hammer, bridging the two sides of 
 the installation, and ultimately busting a hole in the wall big enough for 
 her to climb through to the other side.\n\nThe piece is a study in embodied 
 phenomenology, exploring how the artist’s physical intervention in the 
 architectural space affects her and the viewer’s respective positions.  
 She follows strict instructions, working within the boundaries of clearly 
 defined limits, and distilling experience to a basic set of parameters.  
 She highlights the embodied nature of seeing and the play of presence and 
 absence in the constitution of experience. Withdrawing from one frame and 
 emerging in the other, she performs the fort-da of coming to be and passing 
 away, juxtaposing foreground and background and highlighting the material 
 structures underlying architectural space. \n\nIndeed, drawing on her 
 experience as a dominatrix, jiu-jitsu wrestler, and artist model, Locke 
 presents the visual field as the result of a power struggle, between the 
 embodied subject and the boundaries of architectural space, rife with 
 blood, sweat, and tears.  The piece is violent and intense.  She presents 
 architecture and spectatorship as forms of disciplining the body, 
 positioning the subject in space and directing her view.  She collides with 
 the walls around her, fighting against the boundaries of her very sense of 
 self.  Struggling to re-position herself in the world, to disrupt and even 
 ultimately to transcend her surroundings.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/23/18883351.php
SUMMARY:Passing Through
LOCATION:323 10th St. @ Folsom (SoMa), San Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/23/18883351.php
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