Salon: Ling-Lin Ku and Maria Zervos

About

Ling-Lin Ku’s recent sculptures call on commercial window displays and retail shelf architecture as spaces for self-projection, desire, collage and humor. Ku’s sculptures often explore fundamental relationships between objects and their specific forms of display through custom object architecture. Finding inspiration in food, language puns, free association, day dreaming, and material alchemy, Ku will discuss how these influences hybridize in her object making.

Maria Zervos will speak about her interests in peripatetics, home and exile, topos and utopia. She will present her recent project entitled Peripatetics (Athens) together with a book that includes Zervos’ poems and texts on modern peripatetics as well as texts by other contributors. The essays and poems explore the concept of traveling as migration in relation to politics. This is at a time when citizens of the world are forced to migrate, leaving behind their homes and families as they embark on an often unspecified route.

This program is supported, in part, by Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and Wolf Inc.

This event is free and open to the public.