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HUMAN POWER – Statement
HUMAN POWER is a very personal piece. I will write about it in first person. Here, I aim to condense the last five months of my life into a three and a half minute video. In contrast to my previous three projects where I was the observer, HUMAN POWER makes me into the subject of […]
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Mastry
I can honestly say that I am somewhat disappointed in the state of contemporary 2D art. I am admittedly ignorant to where painting stands today, but the few examples of artists working with this medium in our time have never captivated me. Kerry James Marshall’s exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum gave me much hope, and […]
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Dreamlands
This was probably my favorite exhibition of 2016. I was not prepared for what I saw when I walked into the Whitney’s meatpacking building, which I had never been to before. I honestly don’t know where to start, and I will be visiting Dreamlands again before the holidays as I didn’t have time to get […]
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Pixel Forest
Pipilotti Rist’s hugely popular exhibition at the New Museum is a dreamland unlike anything I had experienced before. The first thing I noticed while waiting in a long line at the New Museum was the loop of Rist pushing her face against a glass pane in the front window. Once I walked in, the machine […]
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Artifacts
The most interesting passage in this article for me was the following: “One has to constantly convert information in order to work with it across different platforms and softwares and on the way it is reformatted, translated, compressed or sometimes even blown up, it is enhanced or diminished: it changes.” I have always been fascinated […]
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“Sometimes I Tumble in the Dryer”
This short video is divided into six short segments that document the sensory experience of travel in a busy metropolitan area. “Sometimes I Tumble in the Dryer” communicates overwhelming auditory and visual stimulation along with its slightly nauseating effects.
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Matthew Barney: Facility of DECLINE / Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures in a Room
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting two excellent exhibitions at the Gladstone and Paula Cooper galleries: Matthew Barney’s Facility of DECLINE was originally exhibited in 1991, but it has been reconstructed for display at the 24th St. Gladstone Gallery this month. I had to read deep into the accompanying text available at the […]
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Alejandro Canon – Project 2
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