The work of Maskull Lasserre has its beginning in a contemplative approach to common everyday experience. Domestic objects and familiar associations are examined, dismantled, and recombined. They coalesce into new experiences that are, at once, strange and familiar. As drawings and sculpture, they address traditional structures of use and value, class and culture, nostalgia, mortality, and even humour. As objects of material philosophy, they represent considerations of semantic, ontological, and allegorical qualities that are inherent in process, material, and subject. The work can be encountered as a physical meditation on the nature of its own being, or as a probe that destabilizes what is taken for granted, and opens the mundane to the unexpected and provocative. Most simply, these are gestures of preservation and reclamation; material homage to the vast and varied potentials of Being. (from gallery website)

Galerie Lilian Rodriguez
space 405
Maskull Laserre
Requiem
exhibition period: May 16 – July 4, 2009
www.galerielilianrodriguez.com