Interview

Installation shot, photo by Juan Olivares

Over the summer, Terence Koh's ASS Gallery (Asia Song Society) hosted "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," an exhibition featuring (and picturing) countless artists desired by the artist and his two co-curators, Anat Ebgi and Jenny Schlenzka. For the winter season, Koh instead requested some sugar in his hole, soliciting mysterious artist Huang Xi from Tianjin, China, to fill the ASS Gallery with snow and trees. Xi interprets Caspar David Friedrich's "Winter Landscape With Church" (1811), conjuring a frozen oasis of mystery and romance, and just the slightest bit of nationalism. The storefront window has been frosted to replicate blizzard conditions, but the installation is visible 24 hours a day in all of its glory, through a peep hole. At night, the light turns pink, rendering neighboring Chinatown a festive red-light district.

Caspar David Friedrich's "Night Landscape With Church," courtesy the National Gallery of London; Installation shot, photo by Terence Koh.

ASS Gallery is located at 45 Canal Street, New York.