Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, a drusy vein (13 février - 15 mars 2014)

Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Mike Muckerheide (dichroic glass), 2013 
archival pigment print. 44 x 54 inches / 111.76 x 137.16 cm

Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson
a drusy vein
13 février - 15 mars 2014
Exposition organisée par Maxime Guitton

The surface looks as if it has been inscribed, though, and as I listen to Karen’s impassioned voice unfolding her wisdom, a Shahrazad of gemmological mysteries, and catch, between her words, the scritching and bumping of the ruby needle as it vibrates on the disc it’s incising to her pauses and her breath, the largest of the rubies on the pendant in my hand took on cosmic size, and I remembered someone telling me once that she had met an astronaut. He had been out in space and she asked him whether he could smell the void. He said, ‘No, because we are sealed in our space suits when we leave the capsule.’ But then he added, after a beat, ‘There is a moment, though, when the smell of space is still clinging to the suit when we come back inside.’ She urged him on. After another pause, he said, ‘It smells like banging two rocks together.’

Ruby by Marina Warner, from Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Making a Record (Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald), 2013.

Le communiqué de presse sera publié et disponible en janvier 2014.