After a short spring break, LU Gallery [https://lu.gallery/ ] returns with a new exhibition dedicated to memory, a sense of place, and the ways some spaces continue to live and evolve in our imagination. Odesa, Texas brings together diverse artistic practices that, each in its own way, rethink place through distance (spatial or temporal, emotional or historical distance).
In this exhibition, Odesa, Texas is not a literal place, it is a conceptual tool. Toponymically, no such place exists: there is Odesa in Ukraine and Odessa in Texas. Yet the moment we allow these two geographies to overlap, a third space begins to breathe between them and strangely enough, the liminality of this space gives us a way to speak about memory, distance, loss, and belonging.