NYAB Event - Bea Fremderman, Ethan Greenbaum and Robin Kang “Wigner’s Friends”

Bea Fremderman, Ethan Greenbaum and Robin Kang “Wigner’s Friends”

Johannes Vogt Gallery

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Johannes Vogt Gallery presents Wigner’s Friends, a group exhibition in the rear gallery. Wigner’s Friends will feature new works by Ethan Greenbaum, Bea Fremderman, and Robin Kang. Each of the three artist’s selected works contend with new methods of technological image production and display.

Wigner’s Friend is a thought experiment posited by physicist Eugene Wigner as a way to add additional mediation to the famous Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment. The experiment was built to illustrate Wigner’s idea that consciousness affects observable measurements on the quantum level.

The selected works contend with issues of translation and mediation by addressing production within a set of predetermined technological confines. Here, the printing and outsourcing of materials provides the collapse, making physical the elements in flux.

Bea Fremderman’s site-specific installation interacts directly with the galleries architecture. Built with functional industrial materials the functionality is subverted with humorous take on the titular thought experiment.

Ethan Greenbaum’s new 3D printed works exist in triplets: The actual door scanned by the artist, the computer file and the work itself. Greenbaum’s new work expands on prior series which involved photography and site-specific installations.

The Jacquard-loomed, bitmap tapestries of Robin Kang overlay the pixels of a computer screen onto the logic of ancient weaving patterns. The images, created via the architecture of the weave structure, reference early computer hardware and relationships between textiles and electronics.