Claudia Hart "Twilight"
Bitforms Gallery
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Featuring a transfixing display of sculpture and animated video installations, Twilight is an exhibit that uses the language of Rococo painting to develop a cyber-feminist narrative inside the space of a 3-D gaming world. Depicting forces of life by using a graphical language, Hart treats the figure as a virtual avatar that hovers in a cycle of decay and transformation. Hart embraces the Nietzschean concept that death and decadence are an intrinsic part of the cycle of growth.
Inspired by the visionary architectural languages of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Étienne-Louis Boullée and Jean-Jacques Leque, Hart's work is informed by the histories of art and architecture. Hart uses animated techniques to create sublime landscape gardens often contain expressive and sensual female bodies that interject emotional subjectivity into what is typically the over-determined Cartesian world of digital design. Decorative and strategic, the pieces she creates exist somewhere between a pyschological realism and idealized form.
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Schedule
from May 07, 2009 to June 06, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-05-07 from 18:30 to 20:30