Downtown, Los Angeles
Ryan Peter
AAAgent presents: A Lifting Shade
Commonwealth and Council"In a site-responsive intervention to the architecture of AAAgent, Ryan Peter presents an installation of black-and-white photograms nested inside the three doorways. The work materializes through cumulation of spray painting, incidental mark making, and traditional darkroom techniques to develop multilayered composites of shapes and forms. The resulting imagery obliquely philosophize their origin and purpose, a primeval world composed of building blocks of visual and auditory elements. The three totemic runes titled LL, UUU, and Eighth engage in a playful reorientation of letters and sounds, unsettling semiotic resonances…" —Audrey Bui