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Maya Perry
Ongoingness
May 13 - June 4 2022
For the first show of the 2022 season, Triggering DJ (Driving Prius Towards Me) Gallery presents Ongoingness – fourteen watercolor works by Maya Perry. The keystone show marks a two-part significance; it is Perry’s first solo exhibition in the city where she was born and it is the gallery’s first foray into a serious departure of ambitious curatorial programming to follow.
In lieu of a formal exhibition text, the artist has provided the following original poem:
To be afraid. To be mouthing
The word. “No”
Without sound.
Dragging out fingers softly on the cracks
Like scars, I wonder what lays beneath our nails
A damaged wall attached to the movement
Of dust, of static
Have you washed these sheets?
Stretched out like canvas
Inked with fluids
Circles of dark shades of grey upon light grey
These sheets have been lived in
Havebeen slept in by a stranger
And this stranger has brought other strangers
I’ve wondered how deep they’ve slept
“I live in fear” They admit to me, Blindfolded.
As if this were a secret as if we haven’t all walked
With our eyes closed in hopes, it is safer to not know.
But then what emerges from this chosen darkness?
“What are you afraid of?”
Mice traps, Instant coffee.
Decisions that cause regret.
Impulsive actions. Getting caught.
A tail snatched by metal.
“Hunger is opening a gap,” I say
Indulging in arepeated habit,
Only the limit, touching the borders
Of my own intestines, to the point of impact
It goes up, up, up
I take quick breaths between each swallow
“What I fear is the inability to stop,
What I fearIs the inability to say no”
- Maya Perry, 2022
Opening Reception
Friday May 13th
7 - 10 pm
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For the first show of the 2022 season, Triggering DJ (Driving Prius Towards Me) Gallery presents Ongoingness – fourteen watercolor works by Maya Perry. The keystone show marks a two-part significance; it is Perry’s first solo exhibition in the city where she was born and it is the gallery’s first foray into a serious departure of ambitious curatorial programming to follow.
In lieu of a formal exhibition text, the artist has provided the following original poem:
To be afraid. To be mouthing
The word. “No”
Without sound.
Dragging out fingers softly on the cracks
Like scars, I wonder what lays beneath our nails
A damaged wall attached to the movement
Of dust, of static
Have you washed these sheets?
Stretched out like canvas
Inked with fluids
Circles of dark shades of grey upon light grey
These sheets have been lived in
Havebeen slept in by a stranger
And this stranger has brought other strangers
I’ve wondered how deep they’ve slept
“I live in fear” They admit to me, Blindfolded.
As if this were a secret as if we haven’t all walked
With our eyes closed in hopes, it is safer to not know.
But then what emerges from this chosen darkness?
“What are you afraid of?”
Mice traps, Instant coffee.
Decisions that cause regret.
Impulsive actions. Getting caught.
A tail snatched by metal.
“Hunger is opening a gap,” I say
Indulging in arepeated habit,
Only the limit, touching the borders
Of my own intestines, to the point of impact
It goes up, up, up
I take quick breaths between each swallow
“What I fear is the inability to stop,
What I fearIs the inability to say no”
- Maya Perry, 2022
Maya Perry (b. 1994 USA) has exhibited in solo and duo exhibitions within Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a city she also calls home. Perry’s works have shown in spaces such as the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv, the Tribeca Art Center in New York, and Raw Art Gallery in Tel Aviv.Maya grew up in NYC / Tel Aviv and currently resides in Connecticut while she pursues her MFA at the Yale School of Art. Her work presents intimate physical states and moments of vulnerability; a search for tenderness and desire expressed through dreamlike drawings and painted narratives.
Opening Reception
Friday May 13th
7 - 10 pm
