Brendan Fernandes “We As One”

Mixed Greens Gallery

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Mixed Greens presents We As One, a site-specific performance and installation by Brooklyn-based artist Brendan Fernandes. Fernandes will transform the 26th street windows into a public stage featuring a text work applied by contracted window painters and erased by choreographed dancers. The exhibition highlights the influence of movement, codified language, and mark making on our worldview through iterative dialogue.

For this installation, Fernandes revisits his past career as a dancer by spearheading a choreographed live performance. Window painters will render the text “We Move” on Mixed Greens’ windows in early September. On November 5, the work will be removed by dancers through loosely choreographed movements. The text is inspired by slogans such as “We Move Together,” speaking to the notion of collectivity and solidarity while simultaneously subverting the notion of bodies physically moving in unison. It also refers to the reality that Mixed Greens will close at the end of 2015. The text signifies the state of flux for the gallery and its artists.

While We As One continues Fernandes’ exploration of dance and performance as tools to decode the language of movement, it has an added social dimension that raises questions beyond the formal and physical. The manual gesture of rendering and removing text questions the value of labor between the window painters and window washers (dancers). It also references the history of Chelsea as a place where working class industry existed in the not-so-distant past, transformed into a place where expensive art is purchased today.

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Schedule

from September 10, 2015 to November 14, 2015
Special Performance: Thursday, November 5, 6-8pm

Opening Reception on 2015-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

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