stills — SVA Flatiron Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2022.
Shown alongside grains.
stills, in Ode to the Lake Sacalaia — Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA, July–August 2023.
From the project Ode to the Lake Sacalaia (Cornel/Henry Art, 2022).
Exhibition
Artist's Statement
The stills are exactly that: stills, drawn from a performance video shot underwater. The compositions were not framed in the moment — they were noticed later, on purview, the most successful angles selected from the recorded swim. The randomness of the play, the no-need of carefully framing, was kept throughout. What survives are the bodies fragmented by light and shadow as they passed before the lens.
I am investigating the imaginative proposition of what might have happened to the divers who never returned, deciphering human bodies fragmented by underwater light and shadows, exploring the tension of self-discovery and identity, and the in-between states of one's self-awareness.
The series is printed on silk and vinyl — surfaces that hold the body the way water does, suspended, flexible, the image not fully fixed.
Works in the Series
Installation — stills and grains, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, 2022
Installation — Ode to the Lake Sacalaia, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA, 2023
Installation Walkthrough
stills and grains at SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, 2022.
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