“Unusual Ache” by Artist Felicia Chiao

A number of pictures from Felicia Chiao’s first solo present in New York Metropolis. Chiao’s autobiographical work affords visible representations of extremely particular but completely acquainted points of the human expertise, creating worlds during which emotions tackle bodily type. In “Unusual Ache” one’s anxiousness seems as an amorphous blob looming across the nook and melancholy a persistent, cat-like companion. As Chiao explains additional:

“Unusual Ache is in regards to the small, undefinable pains you generally really feel when nothing is particularly mistaken. It might probably come as that ache you’re feeling from a tragic music or that fleeting wave of despair that comes over you whereas ready for water to boil. It may be the tightness in your chest earlier than a social occasion or that obscure sense of guilt you generally get, though you’ve performed nothing mistaken. Unusual pains are exhausting to place into phrases however this physique of labor does its greatest to discover them.”

Regardless of Chiao’s deal with emotions of discomfort, her work evokes its personal sense of coziness and camaraderie as we are able to all share a way of recognition or benefit from the easy great thing about a tree rising out of a constructing towards the solar. See extra pictures from “Unusual Ache” beneath or on show at Harman Projects December 17 – January 7.