PERSISTENCE OF VISION at BADCATmobile 1 July 20-August 14
223 West 10th storefront gallery hours: daily 11-6
The Brooklyn Association for the Development of Camera-based Art and Theory (BADCAT) is pleased to announce PERSISTENCE OF VISION, its inaugural public exhibition. The exhibition will take place at BADCAT Mobile 1, a storefront pop-up gallery at 223 West 10th Street in the West Village.
The show features the work of 18 from artist and will take place in three thematically distinct episodes: RECOMBINANT NOSTALGIAS [July 20-27th] , SPECULATIVE TOPOGROPHIES [ July 29- August 5] and AMPLIFIED PHOTOGRAPHIES [August 7- 14] .
At the same moment that Photography itself has been declared “dead” and “dying”, its dismembered and dematerialized corpse is mysteriously reappearing in the central nervous system, the structural body and the re-animating spirit of other practices —painting, sculpture, architecture, installation. In PERSISTENCE OF VISION, curated and organized by Abigail Simon, three distinct emergent threads in the discourse take shape and questions about the “death” of photography are displaced by meditations on its evolution.
RECOMBINANT NOSTALGIAS, opening Tuesday July 20 6-9, presents the work of EVA DAVIDOVA, EDWARD DOTY, WAYNE LIU, HEATHER M. O’BRIEN, LIZ SALES, FELISIA TANDIONO and PAULA WINOGRAD. These artists reject the notion of the photographic as an evidentiary practice carrying descriptions of a world composed of facts and solids. Using diverse practices ranging from self reflextion to appropriation, installation to digital manipulation, they bypass rational thinking with cognitive transformations so forceful they verge on violence. These diverse practices are united by a shared interest in the idea of “moment”, and by a desire to re-imagine the narrative of Time and spacial relations so that the surfaces of the world is reconfigured to reflect a more internal, less quotidian real.
On Thursday July 29 6-9 the gallery will host a reception for SPECULATIVE TOPOGRAPHIES. The artists in this show, MOLLY DILWORTH, BETTINA JOHAE, BEN GANCSOS, ABIGAIL SIMON , MARINA ZURKOW, and the WPC COLLECTIVE make work that is engaged with looking at the relationship between the surfaces of the world, the descriptive methodologies used to map it, and the political/economic and social realities they mask, enable, challenge and enforce.
The final show, AMPLIFIED PHOTOGRAPHIES, will open on August 7 from 6-9, and will feature work by MARLA LEIGH CAPLAN, ERICA LEONE, STACY MEHRFAR, DANA MEIJILSON, SARAH PALMER and CHRIS SCHIAVO, These artists perform diverse strategies of observation and intervention that reconceptualize (Palmer, Leone, Schiavo) and reinvigorate (Caplan, Meijilson, Mehrfar) what constitutes a traditional photographic practice.