LAUNCH LA, with its confidence in material representation or materiality, proudly continues to showcase works which provoke the senses with healthy animation. In this opening, Ms. Snežana Saraswait Petrović and Chenhung Chen introduce the subject’s mind to different perspective of harmony. Both provide a positive appreciation of the changes caused by mankind to be susceptible to change. That is, to being malleable to outside forces.

Migrations Series, 2024. Snežana Saraswait Petrović
3D print, Moss, soft-pastele.
12 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 2 in.
31.8 × 31.8 × 5.1 cm.
Edition of 28.
Courtesy of the artist and Launch LA. Copyright Snežana Saraswait Petrović.

With the first artist, that outside force is none other than the Planet, Earth, as a cosmic extension of natural power. In the positively cryptic message coded with such rectangular attempts at controlling the Earth’s inexhaustsible flow, Ms. Petrovic demonstrates a perfection in assessing human judgment and its fallability amidst the virtually everlasting motion of the Earth and its natural tendency: to produce more fertile growth.

Migrations Series, 2024. Snežana Saraswait Petrović
3D print, Moss, soft-pastele.
12 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 2 in
31.8 × 31.8 × 5.1 cm
Edition of 28.
Courtesy of the artist and Launch LA. Copyright Snežana Saraswait Petrović.

Migrations Series (Grid Installation), 2024. Snežana Saraswait Petrović.
3D print, Moss, soft-pastele.
12 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 2 in
31.8 × 31.8 × 5.1 cm
Edition of 28.
Courtesy of the artist and Launch LA. Copyright Snežana Saraswait Petrović.

The bucolic capture and pride that man has towards scraping the sky with towers that humble the meekness of the earth’s trees yields that blind spot so invisible to the mental perceptions of glory. And that is in how temporary a building actually is compared to the tree’s endless cycling, with a burgeoning aqueduct suggested by the bluish hued boxes revealing a secret layer of imperishable crust the human striver fails to realize exists. To be absent of such negativity in what is an otherwise noble critique of the humanly is excellent.

Tango, 2024. CHENHUNG CHEN
Staples on handmade paper
8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in
21.6 × 21.6 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Launch LA. Copyright Chenhung Chen.

Ms. Chen, on the other hand, reveals what a spiritual power can do to the baseness of industrial media – to provide us a knowing of elevation from the mundane. Her paper and staples demonstrate that true beauty which is absent of injury. It is impressive how focused its patterns are not towards frightening with stabs but with the polish of gentle swirls and peppered paper with a flurry of glisten that can only be achieved with such a conscientious mind forming beauty for others to experience. Here, Ms. Chen leaves central to each piece a universal relation, giving order to the otherwise originally spontaneous pieces.

When It Rains, 2024. CHENHUNG CHEN. Staples on handmade paper
8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in
21.6 × 21.6 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Launch LA. Copyright Chenhung Chen.

Inside Out No.3, 2022. CHENHUNG CHEN. Coated wire, cable & found objects
14 × 24 × 10 in.
35.6 × 61 × 25.4 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Launch LA. Copyright Chenhung Chen.

In moving towards higher order further, Ms. Chen bravely works with basic commodity electronic media to introduce a circular beauty in each of her sculptures. For with the circular, we denote curvature, and with curvature the self-certainty of inner agreement, and thus the joy of experiencing harmlessness; no, of experiencing true pleasure.

Do we seek to leave this happiness? Such a sanctification of electronic waste further extends the idea of fine art as that which aims at emulating the Divine. That powerful force which we can experience in our personal lives, a residency for instance, that does not need to be discarded. In fact, one’s memories can only extend with greater moments of knowing The Good.

For more information please contact James Panozzo at the gallery:

James Panozzo
james@launchla.org
323.899.1363

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