Jonathan Ehrenberg and Meredith James "We Are"

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"In my videos, I layer rough materials like plaster, cloth, and cardboard to create a textured environment that resembles a three-dimensional, inhabitable painting. While my sets, characters, and plots feel surreal and stylized, they also have a sense of emotional truth. My goal is to bring viewers into an alternate world where logic and physical laws are suspended while depictions of emotion become vivid and honest. I want the story to feel real to the viewer in the way that a fantastic dream can feel real—on a visceral level.

My projects are often inspired by literary sources -including Elizabeth Bishop, Nikolai Gogol and Japanese Folk tales- that portray a character’s uneasy relationship to a world in flux. In my videos, involuntary transformations and spatial distortions disorient the protagonists. One character begins losing pieces of himself and slowly takes on the qualities of a tree, another scales a building and is able to climb through the moon as though it were a hole in the sky. A house transforms into a forest or floats across the ocean. The natural world in these pieces functions as both an idyllic setting, and as a wild site of the unknown.” (Jonathan Ehrenberg)

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from September 01, 2011 to September 05, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-09-02 from 19:00 to 23:00

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