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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, a painting by Nicolas Poussin completed in 1658, depicts the mythological hunter Orion moving toward the rising sun to restore his sight, guided less by certainty than by intuition and sensation. The work has long been understood as a meditation on transformation, illumination and the shifting relations between humanity and the natural world.
In her exhibition Orion, Yi Gao returns to this image, connecting its sense of searching to her own practice. Orion becomes a way of thinking about orientation through uncertainty, about moving toward what is not fully seen.
Gao approaches painting as a temporal practice, where time is experienced less as linear progression than as a suspended, eternal present. Growing up in China during a period of rapid urbanization, and later moving to the United States, she developed a heightened attunement to the impermanence of place and identity. The rhythms of domestic life, shaped largely by the women in her…
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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, a painting by Nicolas Poussin completed in 1658, depicts the mythological hunter Orion moving toward the rising sun to restore his sight, guided less by certainty than by intuition and sensation. The work has long been understood as a meditation on transformation, illumination and the shifting relations between humanity and the natural world.
In her exhibition Orion, Yi Gao returns to this image, connecting its sense of searching to her own practice. Orion becomes a way of thinking about orientation through uncertainty, about moving toward what is not fully seen.
Gao approaches painting as a temporal practice, where time is experienced less as linear progression than as a suspended, eternal present. Growing up in China during a period of rapid urbanization, and later moving to the United States, she developed a heightened attunement to the impermanence of place and identity. The rhythms of domestic life, shaped largely by the women in her…
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