Upon entry, viewers are met by a custom-made light column illuminating the semitransparent fabric surface of Untitled 10, 2023, featuring Kehe’s signature cryptic, amoeboid motif. Nearby, a mauve canvas studded with mushroom-like felt objects is paired with a diagrammatic painting of a liver. In the rooms that follow, paintings appear to shapeshift, signaling structures undergoing change. The same organ is variously portrayed from above, as a cross-section, and placed beneath a bulbous cloud of softened red or blue. More knobby, felt-and-rubber assemblages are also on view, but the intentional use of low lighting creates a shadowy smoke-screen effect, hindering a clear view.
Across the exhibition, Kehe subjugates materials and puts them to use. Its unconventional application of canvas and see-through synthetic fabric relays transparency, repetition, and aggregation. These evanescent qualities are complemented by prefabricated wall-sconces installed in each room of the gallery. The feeling is warm, exuding an uncanny glow. Kehe’s work brims with a mystery attuned to life at its inner core. If you squint, the metaphor bleeds to the top, conveying the sense of a complex whole.
— Jennifer Teets
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