Chung 24 Gallery presents Ghost Ships and Mourning DovesI.

“The two artists in this exhibition, Robin Lasser and Sydney Brown, propose that perhaps, to live with and through trauma and loss at the global scale we must first reengage with the body and the senses and get closer and more intimate with the fears and emotions that threaten to overwhelm us. The body of work presented in this exhibition features Lasser’s films projected within, and adjacent to memorial structures in the form of homes and water towers created by Brown. Brown’s delicate, semi abstract copper structures both contain the films and engage in conversation with them, pointing towards the fragility of manmade structures and perhaps mankind itself all the while standing as keepsakes and markers of humans and nature at a critical moment in time. What remains and what gets remembered, kept, treasured and carried through disaster and loss is all at stake in this installation as together, Lasser and Brown gesture at the core concerns, dreams and nightmares of humanity facing the brink of severe ecological changes and the inherent uncertainties of human made disaster.”

— Excerpt from What Remains? by Alena Sauzade, PhD (Full essay is published in the exhibition companion book.)