"Start with the Flesh" introduces new video and glass sculptures that excavate this thematic terrain, unearthing concepts such as fragility, visibility, violence, submission, preservation, insulation, and resistance. The works are defined by a dichotic tension - teasing content from the elusive space between corporeal transience and creative transcendence. Central to the show is a seamlessly looped video that weaves text, sound, and image fragments into a digital tapestry of socio-poetic introspection. A whispered voiceover prefaces the work, intoning a human body as it tries to reconcile itself within space and time and navigate an often inhospitable world - weighed down by the omnipresent force of gravity and other invisible systems of oppression:
"Start with the flesh, reckon with the pounds. The mass. Recall that specificity. This requires naming gravity - the impacts of gravity on your heavy body. In this moment, know no ease. Settle into density."
"Start with the flesh, reckon with the pounds. The mass. Recall that specificity. This requires naming gravity - the impacts of gravity on your heavy body. In this moment, know no ease. Settle into density."
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Video Installation
