A handsomely designed overview of Chan-s acclaimed Badlands imprint and his latest sculptural series exploring the metaphor of the -breather-
This volume surveys Paul Chan-s publications and works made between 2010 and 2022 following his return to artmaking. The exhibition takes as its organizing principle the notion of the -breather,- a word that can signify a moment of rest or pause but can also reference a purposeful redirection toward other activities.
Chan-s turn to publishing through the founding of his independent press Badlands Unlimited represented a type of -breather.- Badlands for Chan embodied a radical break that seeded new ideas and ways of working. The term is also what Chan titles a recent major body of work. Breathers is an ongoing series of pneumatic sculptures and installations that he considers a new genre of moving-image works. Tacitly and overtly, the metaphor of the -breather- underscores each of the works in the Walker Art Cen
