Dana Lok – Closer to the Metal

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Getting closer to understanding the world might look like zooming in, or tunneling down, until you hit a hard, physical core. “Closer to the metal”, the programmers’ term for coding languages least abstracted from the computer’s hardware, calls to mind a thin lip where symbolic commands nearly touch the bones of the machine. How, exactly, does a word nudge metal? I want to picture the puzzle of how weightless things–opinions, concepts, beliefs, images, speech–occupy matter, push it around, rest on top of it, and are simultaneously composed by it. Every time I see the world as an ordered pyramid, a staircase, an onion, it’s always undermined by conflicting horizons, punctured by holes, or made to glitter with dappled light. '

- Dana Lok

Dana Lok (b. 1988, Berwyn, PA). Solo exhibitions of her work include Part and Parse at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY (2022); One Second Per Second at PAGE, New York (2020); Words Without Skin at Clima, Milan (2019); Mind’s Mouth at Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen (2018); Soft Fact at Clima, Milan (2017); and The Set of All Sets at Chewday’s, London (2016). Group shows include X PINK 101 at X Museum, Bejing, China; The future perfect will have arrived, curated by Bridget Mullen, at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (2023); Le Biscuit à Soupe, at High Art, Arles, France (2022); Gravity, a proposal at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2022); Jahresgaben at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (2021); Regroup Show at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2021); Fifteen Painters at Andrew Kreps Gallery (2021); PAGE (NYC) at Petzel Gallery (2021); and In Place Of, curated by Leah Pires, at Miguel Abreu Gallery, (2016), all in New York.