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9/12/2009

Four Exhibitions

AC Institute, New York

Crossing

Lea Bertucci’s work focuses on questioning and redefining the representational boundaries of the photographed image. With an interest in (mis)representing space by using light as an active sculptural force, the projected image has proved to be an ideal vehicle for her to explore ideas. By seeking to confuse the viewer with her images and not allowing them to make sense of the spaces that are being represented, the artist pushes and pulls on their perceptions and forces them to look deeper into the picture. For Bertucci, a particular sort of deception is inherent to photography, thus her need to explore this deception by constructing architectural situations out of slides. In doing so, the viewer appreciates the way photographs conflate three-dimensional scenes into two-dimensional representations. Moreover, the use of spatialized projections, in conjunction with the movement of video-generated images, is intended to create this same sense of disorientation while providing an environment for the viewer to physically interact with the artwork.

Crossing is a projected slide installation that explores this physicality of light in the context of architecture and space. The installation consists of two slide projectors that are placed on mechanized mounts that slowly turn to create movement out of still images. The viewer’s shadows are allowed to interact with the moving, overlapping projections so that these shadows obscure and reveal parts of the projection that would have not otherwise been seen. By utilizing projected images that are two different views of the same space, Crossing creates a kind of collapsing and expansion of space.

About Lea Bertucci:
Lea Bertucci is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, video installation and sound. Her visual art focuses on subverting the representational boundaries of the photographed image through light, space and architecture. She received her BA in Photography from Bard College in 2007 and after relocating to New York City that year, she was awarded a fellowship from the Tierney Foundation to expand her body of work. Formally trained in various woodwind instruments, she is also one half of the electro-acoustic woodwind duo Twisty Cat and continues to work with sound in the context of microtonal harmony and feedback. In 2009 she was awarded a Young Composer’s Commission from Roulette Intermedium and she is currently an artist in residence at the Smack Mellon gallery in Brooklyn. For infomation please see: http://brokendiorama.com.

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Without a Safety Net

In her work, Marcy Chevali creates places of ambiguity where dualities are identified and explored within space, place and situation. By articulating these moments, her objects generate parallel duplicities, rather than a singularity of meaning. Without A Safety Net is a piece that oscillates between comfort and apprehension, protection and entrapment, et cetera. It is majestic and delicate, but also possesses menacing twists and knots, making it, perhaps, something potentially hazardous.

The piece thus becomes a way for Chevali to examine the differences between the spaces that subsequently become separated by this partially permeable membrane. A slight and wavering line creates two distinct regions over and under the net. For example, in one sense, the structure acts as a trap, whereas in the other it becomes a protective barrier. This (safety) net hovers just above the ground, ready to catch and protect, though it is unclear who or what might be falling.

About Marcy Chevali:
Exploring concepts of metaphor and identity are central to the work of Brooklyn-based artist Marcy Chevali. Born in Cleveland, she received a BFA from Ohio State University and a Master’s from the Maine College of Art. Chevali has shown her work throughout the United States, in places such as: Artists Space in New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art; the Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University and the Silver Image Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. She is a founding member of The Fort, an artists collective. For more information please see: http://the-fort.org.

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Time Sifter

Time Sifter is a viewer-controlled environment immersed in visuals and sounds that plays on the concept of the time-machine in the digital age. The piece suggests a journey in time through motion, space and sound. A totem pole shaped steel construction, composed of circular wooden sieves (that were hand-crafted in Istanbul and retrofitted with projection material), is both the mechanism and the metaphor of sifting time. The viewer interacts with the piece by flipping the sieves around the x-axis. With each flip, the video content changes so that the viewer has control over re-creating the environment, the video sequences and the narrative. The translucent mesh creates a two-layered, three-dimensional effect on the screened video inside the round sieve and hence an additional experience of time and space.

About Shlomit Lehavi:
Born in Tel-Aviv, Brooklyn-based Shlomit Lehavi is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with new-media, interactive installation and site-specific installation. Narrative identities and their intersections across time and space are key concepts for the artist and are central to Time Sifter. In examining these networks of identity, her work reflects upon balances and conflicts between the collective and the individual. She is currently developing a massive participatory social web installation.

Lehavi has exhibited and curated shows internationally, including: the Bat-Yam Museum, Bat-Yam, Israel; Artist Space, New York; Flexspace, Austin. Lehavi is the recipient of an America-Israel Cultural Foundation fellowship and a fellowship from the Tisch School of Arts. She holds a Master's degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Her current project with the AC Institute Time Sifter, has been recognized internationally. It was a 2008 awardee at the Future Places Festival in Porto and was featured at the 2009 re-new Festival in Copenhagen. For more information please see: http://shlomitlehavi.com

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Gaps

Elisabeth Molin’s photographs explore different ways of thinking about and looking at reality. These different views are inspired by dreams, lies vs. truths and anecdotes. Through the use of props and actors she alters our perception of urban spaces and mental spaces. She explores different means of playing with reality, these means often being backwards or paradoxical. By changing and modifying the existing spaces, she creates new contexts and opportunities for perceiving the spaces and reality differently for a moment: a momentary alteration of perception. She uses photography as a narrative that has paused. It becomes an abstract moment where the individual and the body are central. The individual person is the main focus and each photograph can also be seen as a portrait of that person. Some people try to escape reality, on the contrary, Molin seeks the humorous, the surreal and the paradoxical in reality.

Gaps is a series of photographs depicting various mental states. Inspired by dreams and the everyday, each image exists somewhere between imagination and reality. The series introduce an alternative way of looking at the world. Whereas “The King” and “Billy” alter architectural and urban spaces, “Grey” and “Tape” render reality surreal and almost animated. By twisting and playing with different concepts and stereotypes such as ‘a suit’, ‘a king’ or ‘botox lips’ the photographs set out to question reality and our perceptions of it. Gaps demonstrates a varying selection of perceptions and a way of thinking about reality and the photographs relate to one another through odd contexts and wry relations.

About Elisabeth Molin:
From an early age, Danish artist Elisabeth Molin began exploring new ways of looking at the world from behind the camera lens. Since then she has been exploring the various fields of photography, graphic design and art. Originally trained in graphic design, she moved to London to study at University of The Arts London, where she obtained a BA in Fine Art with a specialism in photography and film. She has exhibited in Copenhagen at both Charlottenborg Kunsthal and at the Spring Exhibition. In London at the Triangle Gallery, the Old Truman Brewery and at the East London Photography Festival Photomonth. Her latest series, “Button Your Buttons” continues to explore perception and reverse realities in a humorous, surreal and banal way. She currently lives in London where she works cross disciplinary with art, photography and film. For more information please see: http://www.elisabethmolin.com.

Opening Event: Thursday, December 10, 2009. 6-8pm

AC Institute
547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor, New York
Gallery Hours: Wed., Fri. & Sat.: 1-6pm, Thurs.: 1-8pm

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