Bullet Through Glass
Thomas Fougeirol, Jo-ey Tang (and Harold Edgerton)
March 25 - April 30, 2017
Lyles & King, New York
Will Heinrich, New York Times:
Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang organized “Bullet Through Glass,” their joint show at Lyles & King, around Harold Edgerton’s 1962 photograph of the same title. That famous image by Mr. Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. who died in 1990, shows a drooping bullet with a slightly blunted tip just after it has pierced a sheet of plexiglass; he captured it with a strobe light. More than 50 years later, this technology is commonplace, but the photo remains hard to believe, because it so baldly violates our ordinary experience of time.
It’s this vein of strangeness that the two artists tap in this show. Mr. Tang does it, in collaboration with Mr. Fougeirol, by filling imperfections in the gallery floor with macadamia milk, a gluey substance that has dried over the course of the show into a kind of white paint. Mr. Fougeirol, who has the catholic equanimity of a physicist, does it with a series of process-based oil paintings.
