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Proximity Drift is a speculative installation realized by Andrew Yong Hoon Lee & Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi. Born exactly one zodiac calendar cycle apart during the year of the dog, this project brings together thematic concerns of how the act of remembering articulates a past as it implicates and animates the future. Both artists build off their respective practices that together span photography, video, sound, and sculpture. The resulting installation is a field of moments where the temporal and the territorial collapse. The exhibition layers multiple timelines that juxtapose two sets of histories whose boundaries appear as they overlap. Planes of memory open up and move beyond the figural, creating palimpsests of images and sound that are in flux between worlds.

Charlie’s contributions diffract his collage practice into a composite of photographic portals that pushes the scene further into a devotional realm. The portals invoke a greater presence while inevitably doubling down on the materiality of the present space. Andrew creates a musical togetherness by juxtaposing images and sounds that produce new affective economies of relationships between beings, things, and the natural world. These contrasts are brought together within the exhibition and produce a situation where one must think with the constructed space and its occupants.