In Between the Outside-In, 2009; video still; courtesy of New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Locality is a central theme in Pae White's exhibition In Between the Outside-In, harking back to Robert Smithson's own earthworks of the 1970's, with their intrinsic tenets of place and permanence. During her recent FOR-SITE Foundation residency, at the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, White was struck by the historic uses of the landscape as a gathering and food preparation site from about 4000 BCE until the gold rush era in the mid-nineteenth century As a result, a re-rendered sense of place--or platzgeist1 -- surfaces... Read More

Manuscript pages on the wall detail written observations of a natural site. The writing looks conventional; handwriting flows left to right, page by page in an elegant but un-theatrical cursive. The handwriting is black and appears more rushed at times, but not by much. 24 manuscript pages in 4 groups represent walks on 4 different days around Llyn Idwal, a body of water in North Wales. Each page is a black and white xerox of an original. (The original is not exhibited.) The white pages match the white gallery walls. Hung at eye-level in one long row, the pages are... Read More