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Charlie Horse Gallery is pleased to present “Basin”, the first solo exhibition by Brooklyn artist Charles Harlan. Taking its name from a local dumpster service, the title refers to both a manmade vessel for holding liquids as well as a naturally occurring geological feature similar in shape and function.

The materials displayed are commercial products—plastic clothing hangers, a ceiling fan, a residential awning—and yet these objects are also found abandoned or repurposed within Harlan’s urban surroundings. In this environment the materials remain manufactured objects, but also become vessels functioning on another autonomous level. Through a process of identification and resynthesis, Harlan’s atmospheric installation reiterates the relationship between readymade and sculpture, signal and noise, reception and transmission.

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