Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles (TSA•LA) is honored to present Off Balance, a group exhibition featuring works by William Camargo, Eunice Choi, Joanna Cortez, Annette Heully, and Ignacio Perez Meruane. On view from April 26 through May 18, 2025, the exhibition challenges conventional notions of balance, inviting viewers to reconsider what it means to hold ourselves together when everything around us is falling apart.

In a world fixated on achieving balance—between work and life, order and disorder—social media amplifies this pursuit, offering products, repackaged ancient wisdom, and memes that promise equilibrium. Yet, despite our best efforts, something always slips out of place. True order is not natural; it demands constant maintenance, intervention, or enforcement. What if, instead of resisting chaos, we embraced it with care? Perhaps accepting that imbalance can bring us closer to peace than the relentless quest for stability ever could.

In his photographic series All That I Carry, William Camargo captures himself in gravity-defying scenes, repurposing everyday objects to explore the lopsidedness between access and limitation, privilege and constraint. Eunice Choi’s Margin for Error sculptures embody the disorienting in-between state. Despite their apparent tension, Choi’s sculptures are infused with a playful, unmistakable humor. Joanna Cortez manipulates aluminum and textiles to reveal tensions between preservation and erasure, tradition and modernity. Layering and fragmentation serve as emblems of displacement and evolving identities. Annette Heully’s hand-woven Space both literally and metaphorically reflects the self and beyond, highlighting the need for protection and shelter in uncertain times. Ignacio Perez Meruane’s Topplers series explores the instability of histories, materials, and cultural narratives, revealing imbalance as not merely a disruption but a constant, ever-present condition. Whatever your relationship with chaos and order, we hope this group exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the pursuit of balance in an ever-shifting world.

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William Camargo is a photo-based artist and educator from Anaheim, California. He founded Latinx Diaspora Archives, an Instagram archive elevating communities of color through family photos. Using photography, installation, and public interventions, he explores gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories. Camargo has held residencies at the Latinx Project (NYU), Light Work, TILT Institute, and more. His work has been exhibited at The Cheech, Frost Museum, and Princeton Museum of Art and featured in Hyperallergic, LA Times, and The New Yorker. Camargo’s works can be seen in permanent collections such as the Huntington Library, MFA Houston, and LACMA.

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@billythecamera

Eunice Choi is an artist and designer from South Korea, based in Los Angeles, who works in sculpture and installation. Her experience as an immigrant shapes her practice, reflecting an in-between state of belonging. Using malleable materials like wood, silicone, resin, and clay, she explores unresolved emotions through objects and metaphors. Digital fabrication and mold-making allow her to reshape materials while preserving their subtle, disquieting qualities. Choi recently earned her MFA from UCLA's Design Media Arts program. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., South Korea, and Italy, including Salone del Mobile Milano, New York Design Week, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. 

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@eunice_unice_choi

Joanna Cortez is a New York-based artist living and working in Queens and Providence, RI. Trained in printmaking, metalwork, and ceramics, she draws imagery from plants, patterns, and motifs of the American Southwest, Jordan, and Palestine. Her work challenges narratives that relegate her cultures to the past, serving as both record-keeping and a vehicle for storytelling and dialogue on heritage and shared humanity. She has collaborated with artists such as William Kentridge, Kiki Smith, and Alfredo Jarr. Cortez is a master printer at Current Projects in Queens, NY, and earned her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2020.

joannacortez.com
@joanna__cortez

Annette Heully is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in woven installations. Her work explores the intersection of the animate and inanimate, drawing connections between the body and landscape. She is fascinated by the slow transformations of seemingly static forms—how wounds become scars, tides rise and fall, and paths emerge over time, reflecting the synchronicity and poetics of life in visual, spatial, and material experiences. An internationally exhibited artist, she earned her MFA in Fiber from California State University, Long Beach. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve in Ojai, California, where she lives and works.

annetteheully.com
@annetteheully

Ignacio Perez Meruane is a Los Angeles-based sculptor whose practice explores overlapping geological, political, social, and personal histories. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in Santiago, Chile, to Chilean-Palestinian parents, he engages with materials tied to these histories, including plaster, copper, food— and, in his recent work, the rail industry and the engineering of the LA River. His work has been exhibited at Craft Contemporary, Torrance Art Museum, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, and Galeria Tajamar. Beyond his artistic practice, he organizes the Palestinian reading group at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and serves on the board of Clockshop, an arts and culture nonprofit connecting Angelenos to public land through free programming.

ignacioperezmeruane.com
@nachoperezmeruane