NYAB Event - Molly Lowe “Redwood”

Molly Lowe “Redwood”

Pioneer Works

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Pioneer Works presents Redwood, a solo exhibition by Molly Lowe, featuring the artist’s first feature-length film. The exhibition also marks Pioneer Works’ first feature-length film commission as well as the culmination of an artistic collaboration that began two years ago during Lowe’s artist residency with the organization.

Through installation, hand-made objects, and film, Redwood explores notions of immortality and the ways in which psychological states can affect physical bodies. At the center of the exhibition is Lowe’s first feature-length film, also titled Redwood (2016, 58 min.). Described by exhibition curator and Pioneer Works Director Gabriel Florenze as a “surreal time-travel drama,” the film follows a young woman, ostensibly Lowe, who has received a memory transplant from her grandmother, currently in a vegetative state and suffering from dementia in a “Mnemonegenix Center.” As the young woman begins to move through life (and time) with this transplanted memory, her experiences and perceptions become fragmented and conflated. Character distinctions, specifically between the young woman and other female family members, begin to collapse, obscuring relational dynamics and the experience of time. The majority of the project was filmed within sets handmade by Lowe at Pioneer Works. Additional scenes were filmed in Northern California. All costumes within the film were crafted by Lowe as well.

To accompany the film, Lowe has created a site-specific “landscape” for Pioneer Works’ expansive ground-floor gallery space that includes a 30-foot Redwood tree sculpture suspended from the ceiling; a large-scale sand dune in the form of a breast; and a steep hill with a bed poised at its apex. The works serve as totems to the film, extending and manifesting the experiences of the film’s protagonist. In addition, hand-made masks and gloves featured in the film and crafted by Lowe are displayed as taxonomies-of-sorts in the entrance of the large screening room

The exhibition’s opening reception is Friday, March 11, from 7pm to 10pm. The inaugural screening of Redwood will begin promptly at 8pm. Both the reception and screening are free and open to the public.

Molly Lowe (b. 1983, Palo Alto, CA) combines sculpture, painting, performance, video, and installation to explore with many themes relating to the awkwardness of living in a human body and the ways in which different psychological states can affect the physical. She received her MFA from Columbia University, her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has been included in exhibitions and artist residencies internationally, including: Recess Art, Skowhegan, Shandaken, The Sculpture Center, Suzanne Geiss, and Performa 13. Lowe also recently received the NYFA 2015 interdisciplinary artist fellowship award. For more information, please visit the artist website: molly-lowe.com

Media

• Installation
• Film

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