Presenting "DISTANCING EFFECT", a solo show at Edge Zones Art Space in Miami.
Opening on May 05, the exhibit will remain on view through June 02, 2024.
Opens
Sunday, May 05
1-6 PM
The title comes from German playwright Berthold Brecht's tactic of defamiliarization in art, seeking to disrupt the audience's penchant for identifying with the subject and so be forced to engage directly with the ideas present. The exhibition presents a collection of paintings that expands on my themes of “posthumanist romanticism” that prompts viewers to reconsider the boundaries of artistic expression in an increasingly technologically mediated world.
From allegorically styled large tableaus alluding to VR and sampling, to a series of AI-generated distortions transformed into paintings, I look to critically engage with the role of technology in shaping contemporary visual culture.
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson calls humanity an evolutionary chimera, picking up things from every age without fully transitioning out of any one era, characterized by “Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology,” The chimeras in my paintings are a reflection of this vulnerable predicament of ours.
Edge Zones Art Space is located at 3317 NW 7th Ave Cir, Miami, FL 33127.
Edge Zones is an artist and volunteer – run contemporary arts non-profit dedicated to the research, conceptualization and execution of events that strengthen the contemporary art environment in Miami.
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