A simple change in perspective is often the most nourishing and dynamic experience one can have in a day to day life. However the assaults from a fear of an unknown, an exposure leading to a cultural shock, or a fundamental realization that the world you lived in being “wrong” would contain most to an echo chamber of safety inside their own bubble. We seldom get frequent chances to participate in these perspective shifts, and why, knowing the outcome would only be to benefit? However vast our knowledge and understanding, our sights are narrow, and only exist more and more in parallel with others, never with a want to stray from our lane. It is by combating this apprehension that artists Khotan Fernandez and Seth Ellison omit the timidness in favor of active participation by bringing to light the eras of their seemingly otherworldly lives. In the fantastical and alien landscapes that redefine the familiar locales through Khotan's third eye, or in the geometric and cartoonish abstraction of Ellison’s reimagings of the rural south, the group exhibition On The Other Side is a peek into the view from others unlike our own.
Statement and Curation by Gabe Torres
