Cartesian Gris Gris

Installation view, Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis, New York

Palm House Blues, 2019, Three archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate, 47 1/4 x 60 x 3 3/4 in

Installation view, Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis, New York

Coretta, 2019, Two archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate, 51 1/2 x 67 x 3 1/2 in

Installation view, Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis, New York

Euclidian Gris Gris (3), 2019, Three archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, 58 1/4 x 69 1/4 x 4 1/4 in

Installation view, Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis, New York

Cartesian Gris Gris (Stairways), 2019, Three archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate, 47 x 58 1/4 x 3 1/2 in

Cartesian Gris Gris (Water), 2019, Two archival pigment prints in artist's frames, UV laminate, 58 3/4 x 66 x 3 in

Installation view, Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis, New York

Hoods in the Garden, 2019, Two archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate, 51 3/4 x 25 x 2 1/4 in

Euclidean Gris Gris Francis, 2019, Three archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate 49 5/8 × 375/8 × 13/4 in

Installation view, Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis, New York

Onisimo | Leopold, 2019, Three archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate, 39 1/4 x 56 x 3 in

Installation view, Cartesian Gris Gris, David Lewis, New York

The Haunted House of Olympia (Francis), 2019, Four archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate 66 3/8 x 54 3/4 x 5 in

Akwidaa | Luxembourg, 2019, Two archival pigment prints in artist's frames and found frames, UV laminate, 34 x 26 x 2 in

CARTESIAN GRIS GRIS

David Lewis, New York
April 30—June 30, 2019

Artist Talk: Todd Gray in Conversation with Mabel O. Wilson

In Stuart Hall’s 1996 essay “Cultural identity and diaspora,” Hall quotes Franz Fanon’s description of how the colonial subject, the subject of the diaspora, is formed by the gaze of the colonizer: The movements, the attitudes, the glances of the other fixed me there, in the sense in which a chemical solution is fixed by a dye. I was indignant; I demanded an explanation. Nothing happened. I burst apart. Now the fragments have been put together again by another self.