Angela Fang Zirbes' debut exhibition, House & Ghosts, at Hashimoto Contemporary explores the duality of confinement and freedom experienced by ghosts in monolithic spaces. The works contrast restricted traditional compositions with ethereal figures freed from life's constraints. These paintings reflect her experience as a biracial person, caught between two identities. Ghosts symbolize this liminality, transcending societal norms and recollecting memories, while simultaneously being trapped in the nostalgia of their past lives. The exhibition challenges notions of belonging and estrangement against the backdrop of American myths, creating a hauntingly personal yet political dialogue.
These domestic depictions illustrate the restrictions of life through traditional compositions, smaller scale imagery, and rigid posture, contrasting with the ghosts' freedom in death.
Isolation serves as the ghostly figure's ultimate freedom, remaining indifferent to societal expectations, ruminating on memories from their past life.
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