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Jana Euler / Stewart Uoo
dal 9/5/2013 al 9/6/2013

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9/5/2013

Jana Euler / Stewart Uoo

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Outside Inside Sensibility. For the exhibition, both Euler and Uoo create new works, which map influences from today's never-ending stream of data on the human form.


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This spring Jana Euler and Stewart Uoo, two young artists who explore social, technological, and cultural forces in their work, will collaborate for the first time in a dual exhibition, Outside Inside Sensibility, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Opening on May 10 in the Museum’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Gallery on the lobby floor, this show also marks the first American museum exhibition for Euler and Uoo.

For Outside Inside Sensibility, both Euler (b. 1982) and Uoo (b. 1985) will create new works, which map influences from today’s never-ending stream of data—24-hour networks, social media feeds, and digital messages, as well as the physical environment—on the human form. The figures in Euler and Uoo’s works are “at once containers, symbols, abstractions, and avatars,” says Jay Sanders, curator and curator of performing arts at the Whitney, who organized the show. “Both artists delineate and typecast their own realities, fixing flows of information in images and schemas.”
Uoo is best known for his cyborg-type sculptures, which Sanders describes here as “a clique of stylishly ravaged urban females having a night out at a museum.” These dystopian mannequins are adorned with the commercial and technological detritus of our modern age. Dollar store baubles, artificial hair, razor wire, and other man-made decorations combine to form a second skin. USB cables and fabric dangle from severed limbs, looking like veins and viscera.

Meanwhile the paintings of Jana Euler often place her human subjects within a web of references to architecture, media, time, and place that reflect the context in which her works are produced and presented. For Outside Inside Sensibility, she will create an approximately six-by-ten-foot painting that will depict the Whitney’s Breuer building juxtaposed with a portrait of the late singer Whitney Houston. This visual pun is connected by a pair of snail-like human forms, twisted into absurd contortions. As with her previous works, Euler layers these images to bizarre and surrealistic effects that are simultaneously humorous and insightful critiques of contemporary experience in our oversaturated world.
In addition to his sculptures, Uoo will create a mis-en-scène in the gallery. He will drape the space in chiffon curtains, and carpet it with white denim. Over the duration of the exhibition, visitors will be able to trace the traffic flow in the footprints that are left on the material. About the Artists

Jana Euler and Stewart Uoo both attended the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. Euler, who’s originally from Germany and currently based in Brussels, had her first New York show last year at Brooklyn’s Real Fine Arts. She’s also had solo shows at dépendance in Brussels and the Cubitt Gallery in London. Uoo, a native of California now living in New York, obtained his BFA from California College of the Arts before attending the Städelschule. He presented his first solo exhibition, Life Is Juicy, last summer at the Lower East Side gallery 47 Canal. Exhibition Support

This exhibition is made possible by support from the Whitney Artists Council.

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