Palo Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition of @kimfaler Double Bubble. The artists first solo exhibition, featuring the lauded immersive installation of the same name that was most recently seen at MASS MoCa’s Kissing Through a Curtain curated by Alexandra foradas. An opening will be held at 57 Bond Street on the 25th of February from 6-8pm. At first approach seemingly whimsical and ethereal, Double Bubble seeks to explore recent latent collective anxiety and the weight and manifestations of resulting unconscious emotional struggles, a central theme of Faler’s across interdisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, painting and photography. Faler is known for sourcing content from the quotidien, and questioning the value placed on memories, routines and the passage of time itself. Originally commissioned by @massmoca @kohler and @jmkac 2019/2020, the installation comprises a series of approximately 20 sculptures. Each individual sculpture is a large-scale rendering of a wad of chewed bubble gum, cast in a wide range of materials including metal, wax, chalk, glass and gypsum among others, unobscured by the accompanying pigment and paint of pastel greens and pinks. As Faler explains, the work explores “the quick and intimate forms which we make with our mouths while chewing gum...I see these forms as visual manifestations of our anxiety, and an illustration of the tension that we have come to reside with.” The pieces, rendered at the approximate scale of an adult human head and suspended in the gallery eye level, confront the viewer with their material nature and deeper implications. Sounds emitted from elements hidden in the hollow forms further question the mundane daily act of almost unconscious anxious mastication–both in the literal and figurative sense–now visible, and also audible, on an enlarged scale.