Saya Woolfalk and Vandana Jain Exhibition
Smack Mellon
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Saya Woolfalk and Vandana Jain. In each of their hallucinatory installations, both New York-based artists explore the evolving influence of corporations and their relationship to the collective consciousness. Fast forwarding to a post-human future in Chimatek Beta Launch, Saya Woolfalk expands on the utopian narrative of her fictional species of women, the Empathics, who manipulate their genetic information to blend racial and ethnic identities and acquire characteristics of humans and plants during their transformations. In this immersive installation, the Empathics present their newly formed corporation, Chimatek, offering a patented technology which provides interspecies and intersubjective hybridization. Meanwhile in the back gallery, inspired by the historical Razzle Dazzle style of ship camouflage used in World War I, Vandana Jain camouflages corporate logos within an elaborate array of prismatic stripes in her wall installation Dazzle. By rendering the logos unfamiliar, Jain questions the influence these icons hold within the symbolic language of our times.
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Schedule
from September 27, 2014 to November 09, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-27 from 17:00 to 20:00