Exhibit: Memento Loci
By Shawn C. Bailey
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| In Memento Loci, mixed-media artist Shawn C. Bailey [@tronald_charles] engages memory through analog, chemical, and digital means. The artist transforms relics of cultural nostalgia and his personal past through digital collage and 3D rendering to reconceptualize his subjects’ relationships to their own histories. By submitting symbols of a mythologized, idyllic American suburbia and corporate supply chain logistics to digital processes, Bailey explores the disintegration of the very order and logic those systems represent. Simultaneously, analog souvenirs of past experiences are replanted in new emotional psychic landscapes. In collating and recycling the visual vestiges of compositions and 3D assets, the artist replicates the way memories talk to each other: colliding, repeating, re-amalgamating, and recontextualizing. |
Exhibit: Sentimental Meat
By Anna Sofie Jespersen
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| In Sentimental Meat, artist Anna Sofie Jespersen [@instaannasof] explores the unarticulated drives and desires at the heart of experience through a portraiture series in disembodied parts. Each work of art is a self-portrait, either of the artist herself or of the symbolic, real, and imaginary components that form the fiber and connective tissue of selfhood. The artist’s multimedia compositions linger on individual features to the point of abstraction, projecting a funhouse mirror-distortion of the fragmented body theorized in Lacan’s mirror stage. These libidinal fixations and desires materialize without ever attaining wholeness, reflecting the perversity of real desire, which is always experienced as a lack. The artist intersperses psychoanalytic theories of early childhood development and pop culture references into her visual narratives, which she molds with an intensity that blurs the distinction between humor and horror. Sex and viscera combine with sensations of alienation and the uncanny to flesh out a tableau of raw, human feeling. |
| In {{holy-ghost}}, New York-based artist @max.locrian explores our communion with machines. The results of their processes are revealed to us via code and often appear to us as phantasms as we try to make sense of our virtual reality. We recognize apparitions of ourselves emerging out of computer processes to which we make offerings, the scope of which we are not fully capable of understanding. The works center around iconic representations of the subjects blended with other data sources or formats related to them or developed from non-subjects to re-create our illusory machine-made understandings of the self. |
| Atomic Pixels by artist @max.locrian traces the evolution of the pixel as it is transcribed, translated, and reinterpreted into visual and audio representations. This exhibition links our temporo-spatial interactions with the pixel, the smallest technological unit that we can perceive, with the smallest parts of our universe. Many of the images in Atomic Pixels began as music visualization software on the Windows 98 platform, the visual data of which were converted into audio data before being reintroduced into the visual processor, allowing the data to visualize its own sound. The artist then captured frames from this visualization and edited them as sound data to create the current Atomic Pixels. These files have been re-processed on different systems for over a decade, each system leaving its mark on the way our eyes interpret the pixels’ appearances. The largest and smallest parts of reality are often obscured and distorted by our senses as we try to glimpse them at the very edges of our peripheral vision. By asking pixels to interpret pixels, the artist hopes to let them reveal their motions in front of us as they sense themselves. |