LATITUDE Gallery is pleased to present Me & My Plurals, a dual show featuring the figure paintings of Yosub Koh and Angela Fang Zirbes curated by Donglang “James” Xue. Discovering along different paths, both Koh and Fang Zirbes attempt to push the genre of figure painting beyond its conventional potential of singular and teleological depictions of figures, and instead suggest that everyone is a plurality.
A threat we face in contemporary society is the oversimplification of personhood in our daily and professional lives. We are first reduced to human resources, and then categorized into different titles meant to serve certain functions. Such a condition only deteriorates in the digital society. In the name of efficiency and convenience, we are turned into data in various forms of polls and algorithms.