Zipora Fried “I Hope the Moon Explodes”
On Stellar Rays
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On Stellar Rays presents Zipora Fried’s exhibition I Hope the Moon Explodes. The exhibition marks the gallery’s third solo exhibition of Fried’s work, presenting an expansive body of graphite and oil pastel drawings on both mylar and pigment prints, along with c-prints and a video.
A new body of large-scale drawings with graphite and colored oil pastel will be presented for the first time. Fried has long been interested in societal reluctance to probe subsurface emotions and the futility of language to fully express subconscious impulses. Her long-standing drawing practice is rooted in a refutation of language, impulsively repeating gestures that suggest script but that are decidedly nonlinguistic, demanding an intense physical engagement.
Historical referents and animism also permeate the exhibition, appropriating a visual iconography from an archive of personal and cultural sources. Disinterested in primary meaning, Fried layers the familiar and the archetypal, seeking to maximize the dichotomy between outer expression and inner feeling, and destabilizing the position that pits culture destructively against nature.
In addition to works on paper in various media, Fried has created a new video entitled You Can Have Me Back, with accompanying sound by the Brooklyn-based band Pretty Wilds. The video presents found footage of Japanese and American robotic technologies with unsettling human and animalistic movement, resembling an atavistic remnant of our present selves. Through Fried’s affective responses to symbolic modes of communications and her interest in the broader cultural subconscious, I Hope the Moon Explodes creates a dark and beautiful mirror into our collective pathos.
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Schedule
from September 07, 2014 to October 12, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-07 from 18:00 to 20:00