Ron Tran\u2019s art practice is more ethereal than tangible and resides as much in the imagination of the audience as it does in the gestures of artistic process and the actual material outcome. It is like living without a front door, leaving one vulnerable and exposed, but also open to new encounters. This scenario literally depicts one of Tran\u2019s artworks and metaphorically conjures his need to put something, often himself, at risk. In the end, the threats he conjures are more imagined than realized. The disruption caused by placing his door in the gallery for over a month quietly passed with no real harm, beyond the disruption of routine and building of suspense with imagined consequences, but the potential of something happening is enough to both reify the boundary it unlocks as much as opens.\u00a0 In staging this simple scenario and throughout much of Tran\u2019s work, he belies a marked understanding of human boundaries and the micro social rituals that constitute them.\u00a0 He knows how to prod at our sensitive spots, pressing through our intimacies by building an anticipation that falls more banally than adversely.<\/p>\n
Jenifer Papararo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-13495","kb_artist","type-kb_artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":13501,"article_image_bu_de":"Apartment #201, (Die T\u00fcr des K\u00fcnstlerapartments wurde entfernt und f\u00fcr die Dauer der Ausstellung in der Galerie pr\u00e4sentiert), Verschiedene Materialien und Objekte, 2008, Foto: Ron Tran ","article_image_bu_en":"Apartment #201, (Artist\u00b4s apartment door removed and displayed in the gallery for duration of exhibiton), Variable dimensions and objects, 2008, Photo: Ron Tran ","datum_suche":"2013-11-14 16:39:37"},"yoast_head":"\n