NYAB Event - Neil Folberg "Serpent's Chronicle"

Neil Folberg "Serpent's Chronicle"

Flomenhaft

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The Flomenhaft Gallery presents Serpent’s Chronicle: new and evocative photo works by Neil Folberg. He has set himself the difficult task of creating a body of work that brings a biblical narrative into the present. The images have a direct romantic energy that speaks to our primal senses. Serpent’s Chronicle is an interpretive narrative of events in the Garden of Eden from the viewpoint of a cunning observer; it is the Serpent’s visual and textual record from that archetypal time until now.

This is uncharted territory, but the presentation of works on silk banners, multi-layer silk constructions and dynamic prints perfectly interact with the subject matter and encompass this very special world of alienation, isolation and germination. Vibrating with nervous excitement, the peopled landscape entitled “Fear & Wonder in the Darkening Gloom” has the enormous capacity to say it all.

Folberg uses dancers from the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company as his models who convey a tense rhythm that resonates with the evocative physical environment in pieces such as “Embryonic Man,” “One at First,” and “Your Ancestral Memory.” Folberg concludes the saga with “You Weren’t Meant to Remain Immortal.”