notes on suspension

Letting the Painting Fall is about the painting’s own presentation—how it appears in the world. The way it exists and how it relates to the earth. It falls toward it, the ground pulls it in, and they merge. Hanging it on the wall is an act of resistance against the natural force of falling. It goes against what should happen to a material in our planet. The way a painting is displayed completely changes what it communicates, how the viewer perceives it, and how it relates to itself and the surrounding space. This exhibition is based on reinterpreting the act of placing a painting on a wall, turning it into an impossible action. Throughout history, the two-dimensional support of painting has led us to associate it closely with the flat wall, the smooth surface, but in reality, the painting and its canvas are flexible and mutable materials. With this project, we seek to make the painting-object evident as it exists on our planet, either falling or resisting its fall through complex or striking mechanisms. We turn the act of hanging a painting into something remarkable. Hooks and mounts become protagonists, highlighting how the painting is positioned on the wall. This work emphasizes the relationship between the exhibition space and the artwork. The intermediary between the wall and a painting, which is usually just a simple nail, here transforms into extravagant and unexpected display structures for a painting, theatricalizing to the extreme the possible ways of hanging a painting. Preventing it from falling. Letting it fall.