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Thank you for visiting us during DC Open! First $Thank you for visiting us during DC Open! First two rooms of: Oliver Husain | Literal Umbrella September 2nd - October 15th @oliverhusain A performative flourish: Lined with bold patterns and images of glitzy crystal chandeliers, the umbrellas of Oliver Husain’s new exhibition punctuate the spaces they occupy — each with a flatness that unfolds to slice wide curves through the air. While many meet the familiar scale of a human body, one swells outwards in size, engulfing the full volume of the gallery’s first room like a theatrical setpiece. It’s covered with decorative transparent shapes, which allow the giant umbrella to dance playfully between its relationships with foreground and background. Across Clages, through experiments with found film footage, digital animation, ink drawing, and sculptural objects, the umbrella’s unusual choreography continues. A frilly parasol provides a counterbalance to an animated dancer’s graceful, almost syrupy gestures, their movements projected against a circular screen shimmering with black ribbon. Umbrellas twirl, ooze, and become fractal in a series of ink works by the artist, hand-drawn translations of AI-generated images that were responses to the prompt dancing umbrella. In each of these works, the exhibition’s titular prop seems to absorb a vortex of contradictory forces: flatness and depth, gesture and stillness, folding and unfolding and folding again, all with a twist of the wrist and an expansive flourish. Text: Daniella Sanader Images: Simon Vogel #oliverhusain #contemporaryart #artwork #film #mediaart #installation #drawing #animation #umbrella #cologne #dcopen$

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