e-flux Chac Mool Gallery Chac Mool is pleased to present Yoshua Okon and Micol Hebron at Arco’03, co-curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Esthella Provas. Hall 9, Stand number UC940 Yoshua Okon imbues satire and caricature, putting in tension notions of non-fixed morality and ethics to be arbitrated by the viewer. For New Décor (2001), a three-channel video projection, Okon recruits passersby as actors to improvise clichéd soap scenes of “love,” “the jealous girlfriend” and “the painful break-up”. Soon the actors break free and bring their own life into the role, showing the tenuous line between fiction and reality. In Fountains (1999), a six-channel video installation, Micol Hebron ingests colored foods & liquids she then vomits, erasing the boundary between the interior of her body and the exterior world. Hebron’s action of vomiting a color matching her outfit becomes the virtual paintbrush for the construction of the monochromatic compositions of her video scenes. The piece offers a commentary on the role of the artist as producer of creativity and the body as a vehicle for making art. Chac Mool Gallery 8920 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, 90069 Phone 310.550.6792 Fax 310.550.6872 Chacmool@earthlink.net http://artnet.com/ChacMool.html Images: right – Yoshua Okon, “New Decor”, three channel video installation (detail). left – Micol Hebron, “Fountain”, six channel video installation (detail).