WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BOTERO’S LEG

Where in the World is Botero's Leg
by JONATHAN CHING
July 9 - August 2, 2010
Video Room, Finale Art File
Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound

Jonathan Ching's current solo show, entitled Where in the World is Botero's Leg, engages the fallibility and arbitrary beauty of human memory. Framed by our own vantage points—our respective experiences, politics, and ways of seeing the world—singular events may very well end up documented as intersecting memories and narratives, multiple accounts of the past. He constructs the exhibit as a dissection of this concept, through a seemingly random conjugation of paintings and sculptures, where images are sifted out from their previous contexts and juxtaposed as visual bullet points to his discussion of the subject.