Anne Percoco "The Life Instinct"
NURTUREart
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Celebrating makeshift solutions, survival instincts, and the reuse of discarded material, Percoco’s work infuses practical works inspired by immediate necessity with playfulness and wit. Inspired equally by children’s couch forts and makeshift emergency shelters, the artist uses scavenged and natural materials to construct a small, inhabitable hut in the gallery space, presenting it together with a photographic slideshow documenting her initial experiments with similar miniature shelters.
As part of her solo exhibition at NURTUREart, Percoco presents a publication conceived as a catalog of repaired objects. The publication is part of an in-progress body of work that investigates how value is lost and reclaimed and how repurposed objects can shift, sometimes humorously, from one role to another.
Through the duration of the exhibition, guest artists (including Eric Clausen, Marek and Kristyna Milde, Sewing Rebellion NYC, and Fixers Collective) will lead a series of public, interactive skill-sharing workshops promoting resourcefulness and self-sufficiency.
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Schedule
from April 23, 2012 to May 29, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-04-27 from 19:00 to 21:00