February 3 - March 3, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 FROM 6 TO 8 PM - GALLERY TALKS AT 7 PM
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 FROM 6 TO 8 PM - GALLERY TALKS AT 7 PM
Vernita Nemec — The Endless Junkmail Scroll
We're proud to present "Aspects", a new performance work byVernita Nemec AKA N'Cognita—a 10 to 15 minute performance taking place during the gallery talk section of the evening, starting at 7 PM.
N'Cognita has presented more than 70 performances in the United States, Hungary, Japan, Ireland, Germany, Mexico and France, including guerrilla performances at the Pompidou Museum in Paris and Documenta 13 in Kasel. The artist uses Butoh movement forms interpreted uniquely & personally, along with words and props, to explore conceptual ideas in her performance work. |
“The Endless Junkmail Scroll” is artist Vernita Nemec's solution to dealing with all that mail we get that tries to persuade us to borrow money, open another charge account or accept services we have no need for.
Using “security envelopes”, those with patterned linings of blue & green as a base, the artist then collages and applies fragments of paint, words, drawings & photographs. Hung from the ceiling with monofilament and pinned or tacked to the wall, the scroll becomes a jungle of paper fragments and limitless in length. In 2017, measuring all its segments, it is approximately 13” wide and already more than 400 linear feet in length. As pieces are framed, sold and exhibited it is torn into new sections or re-glued anew. It is an ongoing piece and the segments can be dis-connected and reconnected so that they fit any space or situation for both framed and unframed presentations. Long segments can be installed to twist and curl around a space since it is two-sided, filling the air with detritus transformed. The Endless Junkmail Scroll Installation is an interactive site that can be physically experienced as an environment that in past times might have been a forest or jungle, since destroyed in order to make the paper that becomes the endless junkmail filling our mailboxes daily. It’s ease of transport & storage by rolling tightly also is a response to today’s space and storage problems. The Endless Junkmail Scroll is a thought-provoking installation that addresses environmental issues to be considered and dealt with in the 21st Century: the destruction of natural resources, the overloading of landfills, over-consumption of material possessions, over-crowding. Issues that if not addressed with recycling, and re-use will result in life, as we know it, being over. Visitors may enter this fragmented space that is conceptually and visually endless, but variable in its dimensions. Hanging from the ceiling, twisting through space or crawling along the walled perimeters, viewers and visitors can meander under and through the streaming information of life today and experience a 21st century version of our humanized jungle of paper with burned edges, torn fragments and collaged bits of life today. In addition to the scroll, the artist has created bas relief collages, cast paper torsos and other works made primarily of the "security envelopes" from the abundance of junkmail that continues to fill our mailboxes. — Vernita Nemec AKA N'Cognita, click for artist biography For more information, visit the artist's website ncognita.com |
