It was yesterday, 2023, porcelain, ceramic, and grout, 49.25 x 15 x 15 (125.1 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Linda Nguyen Lopez is a first generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Her abstract works explore the poetic potential of the everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. Lopez resists acknowledging that the objects inhabiting our lives are inanimate. By considering the objects’ needs, and denying our needs for those objects, they can expose a life and language of their own. A sagging couch expresses its physical exhaustion from the continuous support of lounging bodies. A coffee table makes its hostility clear to the car keys by continuously throwing them over its edge and onto the floor. By carefully observing the relationships between furniture, knick-knacks, and utilitarian objects, Lopez has found them to reveal less about the lives of their owners than they do about their own hidden lives.