For the past fifteen years, Charles LaBelle's work has explored both the geographic and social space of the city. Celebrating what Walter Benjamin called the "phantasmagoria" of the modern metropolis, LaBelle's interest is in locating and investigating the intersection of place and subjectivity- the way human identities are formed in relationship to the places we inhabit and pass through.

As Christopher Knight wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "LaBelle's photographs, drawings and sculpture all pay attention to the rewards of acute consciousness. Casual experience, normally undertaken by rote, is turned into an act of keen awareness."

Exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad, LaBelle's work has been seen most recently at Neuberger Museum, New York; Para/Site, Hong Kong; Artist's Space, New York; Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Anna Kustera, New York and Traywick Contemporary, San Francisco. Institutional and corporate collections include The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Albright-Knox Museum; The Santa Barbara Museum; The Microsoft Collection; The Hewlett-Packard Collection and the Stuart & Judy Spence Collection.

When: 6:00pm, Thursday 17th April 2008

Where: San Art, 23 Ly Tu Trong, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

April 16, 2008

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