The Heavy Weight of Light

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Harris Lieberman is pleased to announce Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade’s first solo exhibition in New York. Referencing art historical tradition, notions of surrealism and theories of natural sciences, Kwade explores our innate understanding of subject and object relations by engaging the body as a sculptural tool in space and manipulating the physical properties of materials. The main gallery will feature works that explore transitions between reality and illusion. Heavy Weight of Light, a work that spans the length of the gallery is composed of ten objects made of various raw materials--mirror, wood, and copper—that slouch in unison against the wall in opposition to the nature of their respective products.