NYAB Event - Violet Hopkins "Afraid He Might Be Mistaken For A Centaur"

Violet Hopkins "Afraid He Might Be Mistaken For A Centaur"

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At Foxy Production
Media: Painting, Drawing

In VIOLET HOPKINS’ second solo exhibition at Foxy Production, AFRAID HE MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR A CENTAUR, the artist appropriates images from the 1977 Voyager space mission's Golden Record, its catalogue of photographs, diagrams and sounds designed to communicate life on Earth to any aliens who may be encountered en-route. Hopkins reproduces a number of these images in ink on paper, and then anchors the exhibition with two large paintings: one of the record’s instructional cover, and the other of an eye reflecting a solar eclipse.

The exhibition conflates past, present and future in a conceptual but affective exploration of perception. Hopkins highlights the cultural assumptions embedded in the Golden Record project, taking a laconic yet immersive approach to the values it embraces. She underscores the mission’s glorious ambitions with a sense of loss: using photography as a central theme, she explores the limitation of possibilities inherent in fixing an image to a concept.