rs180223 (G; T)
Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space, NY, 2022
https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/systems-entwined/
Site-specific sound and animation installation with piano strings, Arduino, steel beams, steel sheets, natural light, motors, architecture, and a single-channel projection.
Curated by Christie Neptune
Documentation photography by Brad Farwell
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space is pleased to present Systems Entwined, a group exhibition curated by Christie Neptune, a former artist-in-residence of the LES Studio Program, through which this exhibition is made possible.
In Systems Entwined, visual artists Luba Drozd, Antonia Kuo, Keisha Scarville, and A Young Yu examine a collision of systems within natural and built environments. In a multidisciplinary exposition of works across photography, video, sculpture, performance, and sound, each artist explores disintegration that reimagines and subverts logical thinking. Artificial forms superimposed on natural environments collapse binary divisions in space. Unorthodox processes yield fragmentation that distorts and repurposes ordinary objects and surfaces. Each work is anchored by a subversive methodology that destabilizes time and meaning to produce contemplative terrains which evoke a range of associations from transcendent spirituality to the immaterial and abstract.
In rs180223 (G; T), (2021), Luba Drozd utilizes piano strings, Arduino, steel sheets and beams, motors, glass architecture, and single-channel projections to build a site-specific sound and animation installation within the gallery. A pre-programmed Arduino regulates sound amplified by vibrating piano strings, small motors, and steel sheets. 3D animations projected refract and echo the architectural elements within the space. The process produces a holographic effect that creates visible shadows and new pockets of perception within the gallery. Drozd’s work conveys a collision of systems that re-orient architecture through repetition, the offset of materials, sound, and vision parallax.
