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Returning June 05, 2024 ➽ July 28, 2024
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Returning June 05, 2024 ➽ July 28, 2024

Returning

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Annex
2024
Misa Chhan (born in Long Beach, CA) is a Los Angeles-based Cambodian-American artist who explores their emotional world through book arts, printmaking, textiles, clothing, and natural dyes. They are driven by their curiosity around the natural world, everyday objects, and letterforms. Part of the mystery of working with nature is its transmutability, with which Chhan likes to play.

Growing dye plants and gardening are integral to their practice. Each spring Chhan plants a Japanese variety of indigo called Persicaria tinctoria from hand-germinated seed in their family’s garden patch. After coaxing color from the harvested plants, the remnants are composted and returned to the soil, thus completing a circular process from seed to dye. Other repurposed organic materials, such as avocado pits and kitchen scraps, are also used to create textile dye.

In Returning, Chhan re-explores book arts and artists books, from where their love for natural dyes and textiles stems. Originally trained in print and book arts, Chhan’s autodidactic textile work is inflected with the visual language of printmaking. Using a variety of techniques such as block printing, katazome rice paste resists, and shibori dyeing, this installation assembles a selection of letterpress prints, monotypes, cyanotypes, textiles, clothing, artists books, and dried plants to draw us into a dreamy world of print and color.

This Annex exhibition was curated by Wendy Yao as part of the Ooga Booga Bookshelf Residency at ICA LA.

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Installation view, Returning, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 5–July 28, 2024. Photo: Angel Xotlanihua / ICA LA.
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64 Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
2019-02-10 2019-08-04
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4:52pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
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62 Adrian Piper
What It’s Like, What It Is #3
2018-10-07 2019-01-06
1991 what its like 3
12:12pm Jul 16, 2019 Page
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61 Agency of Assets:
Reality Augmented
2018-09-30 2019-01-06
Agencyofassets
1:44pm Apr 07, 2020 Page
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4 B. Wurtz:
This Has No Name
2018-09-30 2019-02-17
Wurtz install 05
4:54pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
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6 Nina Chanel Abney:
Royal Flush
2018-09-23 2019-01-20
Abney install 02
11:58am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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2 This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists 2018-06-03 2018-09-02
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9:02am Dec 06, 2021 Page
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20 sisters and brothers 2018-04-22 2018-06-17
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11:54am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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18 rafa esparza: de la Calle 2018-04-22 2018-07-15
Rafa esparza install 02
11:46am Aug 03, 2021 Page
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9 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) 2018-02-04 2018-04-22
Szeeman install 10
11:49am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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8 Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt 2018-01-28 2018-04-08
Arnold install 11
11:45am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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1 Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation 2017-09-09 2017-12-31
Ramirez install 02
6:55pm Apr 02, 2020 Page
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7 Abigail DeVille: No Space Hidden (Shelter) 2017-09-09 2018-01-14
Deville install 02
11:37am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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5 Sarah Cain: Now I’m going to tell you everything 2017-09-09 2018-03-11
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1:19pm Nov 16, 2021 Page
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11 Moshe Ninio:
Rainbow:Rug
2015-01-17 2015-04-02
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11:39pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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10 Brian Weil, 1979–1995:
Being in the World
2015-01-17 2015-04-18
1
11:40pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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12 Citizen Culture: Artists and Architects Shape Policy  2014-09-13 2014-12-13
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11:38pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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13 Anri Sala: Dammi i Colori  2014-09-12 2014-11-08
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11:34pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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14 Robert Swain: The Form of Color  2014-05-17 2014-08-23
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4:59pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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15 Nonfictions: Jeremiah Day/Simone Forti/Fred Dewey  2014-05-17 2014-08-23
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11:38pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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17 Xylor Jane: Sea Legs 2014-01-18 2014-04-05
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5:08pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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16 Keltie Ferris: Doomsday Boogie 2014-01-17 2014-04-05
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5:07pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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