TENSE
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Tense - with Christopher Jagmin and Safwat Saleem - Modified Arts - March 2022
How innocent we were in March of 2020 - we just didn’t know it. As we all scrambled to understand what mask to wear and wash all our groceries after fighting to find toilet paper, our lives settled into the reality of 2020. Covid, racial inequities laid bare, a historic election, which then gave way to the attack on the citadel of our democracy - all informing our vocabulary with new words, new symbols, or familiar ones that took on completely new meanings.
The work in this exhibition is a visceral reaction. It reflects my desire to cut up, re-arrange, piece back together, mend and protect in response to all we’ve endured. Now familiar words and symbols are disintegrated, to be remade into the very culprit they describe, or rearranged to obscure the horrendous connotations a single character now evokes, or simply pieced back together to reimagine and repair. Sacred cloth is covered with a futilely hand-knitted sweater for protection and commercial icons are revealed for what
they are.
Each work hopes to control and resist the misinformation that has torn up the America that we once thought we knew – and mend that innocence we once took for granted.
How innocent we were in March of 2020 - we just didn’t know it. As we all scrambled to understand what mask to wear and wash all our groceries after fighting to find toilet paper, our lives settled into the reality of 2020. Covid, racial inequities laid bare, a historic election, which then gave way to the attack on the citadel of our democracy - all informing our vocabulary with new words, new symbols, or familiar ones that took on completely new meanings.
The work in this exhibition is a visceral reaction. It reflects my desire to cut up, re-arrange, piece back together, mend and protect in response to all we’ve endured. Now familiar words and symbols are disintegrated, to be remade into the very culprit they describe, or rearranged to obscure the horrendous connotations a single character now evokes, or simply pieced back together to reimagine and repair. Sacred cloth is covered with a futilely hand-knitted sweater for protection and commercial icons are revealed for what
they are.
Each work hopes to control and resist the misinformation that has torn up the America that we once thought we knew – and mend that innocence we once took for granted.