Everything went shimmery
Adapted photographs from the Expatriate Archive Centre show images of oil rigs and humid landscapes, interrupted by degradation and decay marks on the images’ surfaces.
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Monstratsiya archive
MONSTRATSIYA ARCHIVE FROSTING ON GLASS 2017 – 2018 Reappropriating absurdist Russian protest signs known as monstratsiya (-monstrations), the works call to loophole behaviors used to circumnavigate legal complications where illegibility and ‘invisibility’ are rendered as effective as direct action. Here, the act of archiving monstratsiya protest signs serves to document these ephemeral gestures and give them permanent […]
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TO BE A PALE COPY DYE SUBLIMATION PRINTS ON POLYESTER 2016 These photographic prints of Berenice Abbott’s images—taken for physics textbook studies of wave interference patterns of light through water—are repurposed as flags on fabric, emphasizing of their iconic compositions and central geometric forms. Abbott was part of various Parisian and New York City social […]
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A stack of black-and-white prints, showing paintings of Saint Francis, Saint Clare, and other recipients of the stigmata, sit on a pedestal at one end of the room. The punched holes rest on another pedestal across the room.
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FLATTENED AND DISORDERLY BABEL VISNINGSROM FOR KUNST, TRONDHEIM AUGUST 18 – 28, 2016 [LINK]
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Rendered in digital space, a Fresnel lens is paired with advertising mantras for vision and optics, taken from opticians’ marketing campaigns.
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STRANGE FRAGMENTS, TAKEN FOR THE WHOLE DIGITAL PRINTS ON ALUMINUM 2017 – 2018 Emulating a film noir style, this series depicts the adjustment brackets on the back of plastic chaise lounges found at many swimming pools. I reproduced these objects in wood and enamel and photographed them on mirrors with fog machines. Reworked as weapons, […]
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I: STIGMATA STRUCTURES CONCRETE, CORK, WOOD, PAINT 2016 II: HOLY WOUNDS TEMPURA PAINTS ON TRACING PAPER WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER 2016 Cast in concrete, the sculptures included in Stigmata structures reiterate the historical sign of the stigmata in broken and crumbling segments, supported on thin wooden joints. The sculptures are distributed throughout each space […]
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SOMETHING TO LOCATE YOURSELF WITH INSTALLATION APPROX. 5 X 5 FEET 2015 Carried out over the course of two weeks, Something to Locate Yourself With marks the distance from the La Fragua residency to my then-home in San Francisco, in an attempt to ground my dislocation within a new place. The mosaic reads, 5822 mi. from home.
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