The great narratives, which once organized modern life have broken down into fragmentary micro-narratives, each of which blabs on by itself with innumerable links to other narratives in its own apparently arbitrary system. The experience is schizophrenic. Meanings seem to hide behind cryptic images, which permeate the contemporary world with a sometimes overwhelming intensity. The artists in this show seize upon this ecstatic experience and thematize it in self-referential systems, riddled with minutia.

To construct her installation, Miriam Dym cut fabrics, carpet, plywood, and other everyday materials into curvy forms and patterns. She vividly colored them, and used them to construct a magically delusional world. Walking through it, one found oneself mesmerized by a sense of vertigo in a “disintegrated” field, which traced the boundaries between mundane life and illusions. Quotidian scraps generated visionary images, and a joyful, seemingly endless series of ruined meanings and orders.

Eunjung Hwang presented video and print works from her “Fabulous Creature” series. Line-drawn in a super-flat, naive style, Eunjung’s characters and machines floated and flew through a fluoroscopic landscape. They killed, ate and destroyed each other, crying out with squeaky manipulated voices, in a seemingly never-ending series of non-narrative sequences.