Joymore
236 Grand Street, 646-270-0376
Williamburg
October 14 - November 14, 2005
Reception: Friday, October 14, 7 - 10 PM
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No Sugar No Milk is a show staged as a tale, an abstractly graphic narrative about the cultural trauma of being in the center of the universe – yet perceiving it from a big city, the only real place.
In this show one can see: 1 – A view from a place impossible to be in: the center of the Milky Way galaxy. 2 – A view from an everyday place, as a large wall drawing showing an oneiric cityscape with buildings, highways, cars and a space shuttle. The big city displayed as a gigantic desert, a place for vehicles and floating pathways.
Looking for the nostalgic remains of Modernism, Roque draws, as in a copy-paste process, the barren aesthetics of contemporary city sights. The city, here as elsewhere, is the center of a personal perceptive universe, encircling one’s perspectives, possibilities and limitations.