Too Much Night, Again
Is it possible to have too much night? Seasoned partyers may think not, insomniacs may scream an emphatic yes – sharing the views of designer and artist Pae White.
Source: Courtesy of 1301PE, Los Angeles. Photo – Carlos Avendano
Pae White, S U M M E R X X, 2012
The artist’s forthcoming show, Too Much Night, Again, blends design, art and architecture to create a huge site-specific installation inspired by her own experiences of chronic sleeplessness.
Source: Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo – Eric Berg
Pae White, MetaFoil, 2008
The piece will take the form of a huge coloured yarn work, criss-crossing the space to create what the gallery describes as ‘supergraphics’ spelling out words such as TIGER TIGER and UNMATTERING that can only emerge as the visitor navigates the space.
Source: Courtesy of the artist and International Art Objects, Los Angeles
Pae White, PROFESSIONAL
Los Angeles-based White used her own insomnia to inspire the piece, drawing on the condition’s propensity to compel the sufferer to reflect on their own transience, according to South London Gallery, which will host the show.
Source: Courtesy of the artist, greengrassi, London and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Collezione Sandretto R
Pae White, Still, Untitled, 2010
It says, ‘the letters and words emerge and dissolve depending on both our physical relationship to them and the relative weight of the overall aesthetic experience’, with the piece forming ‘a dense cloud of darkness which struggles to exist within the ethereality of the space.’
Source: Courtesy of the artist,galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan, greengrassi, London and neugerriemschnei
Pae White, Weaving, Unsung, 2009
The volume of the black and purple yarn that forms the installation also references a less abstract concept – Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality album – which Pae says terrified her so much as a child that she could only sleep if it was safely tucked away under her bed.
Pae White – Too Much Night, Again runs from 13 March – 14 May at South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, London SE5
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