“Allegorical imagery is appropriated imagery; the allegorist does not invent images but confiscates them…He does not restore an original meaning that may have been lost or obscured; allegory is not hermeneutics… Rather, he adds another meaning to the image. If he adds, however, he does so only to replace: the allegorical meaning supplants an antecedent one; it is a supplement. This is why allegory is condemned, but it is also the source of its theoretical significance.”
– Craig Owens, The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism (1980)

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Public Gallery is pleased to present To supplement the fragment, an exhibition dedicated to the writing and research of the late American art critic Craig Owens (1950 — 1990), curated by Nicole Estilo Kaiser. Presenting thirteen international artists working across nearly seven decades of contemporary art, this exhibition will consider the allegorical impulse and its present-day applications, positing its continued relevance in dialogue with the vestiges of the postmodern debate.

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Floating Island features in review by Zaria Muhammad, https://elephant.art/all-art-is-ceramics-now-and-thats-a-good-thing/​