PRESS RELEASE for SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2022: NAKED LUNCH

Tropic of Cancer (Booth #1043), curated by Ketta Ioannidou, Eun Young Choi, Daniela Kostova
Artists: Amanda Church, Caroline Falby, Yaloo

SPRING/BREAK Art Show NEW YORK CITY 2022
SEPTEMBER 7 - 12 
625 Madison Avenue, New York City

PRESS + COLLECTOR  PREVIEW:
Wednesday, September 7th, 11am - 5pm

VIP PREVIEW NIGHT:
Wednesday, September 7th, 5pm - 8pm

REGULAR SHOW DAYS:
September 8 - 12 // 11am - 8pm
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Expanding upon "Naked Lunch's" exploration of the Neo-Renaissance, “Tropic of Cancer” brings together a contemporary cultural cross-pollination of works by three female artists who work in painting, drawing, collage and video installations and use biomorphic elements depicting the sprawling female form, allowing the works to ceaselessly flow and transform in order to become other to oneself.

Within Amanda Church's canvases, the fragmented and intertwined body parts that inhabit the space are recognizable, yet their actions remain elusive, hinting at something seductive one moment and quotidian the next. One’s imagination and wandering eye are left to trace the contours and voluptuous lines that form an outstretched limb or a backside. No outlying border or trailing fragment is without purpose. The artist’s pronounced lines and cavorting shapes comprise an unmistakable gestalt, wherein the interplay of hard-edge geometry and soft biomorphic abstraction intimate a fleshly universe of subtle dimensionality and erotic implications.

In her new collages, digital prints and drawings, Caroline Falby builds upon an iconography she developed for her interactive art installation "The Animation of Mortality." "The Animation of Mortality" is Falby’s response to the grief and stigma surrounding her father's death from HIV-related causes. Falby saw a co-relation between the secret sexual relationships she kept from her children during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and her father's closeted behavior. Her new pieces twist the imagery in "The Animation of Mortality," from a narrative about shame and repression into a Rococo feast about freedom, lust, hedonism and excitement.

Through her multi disciplinary, immersive, technically rich and visually extravagant works, Yaloo incorporates under her inseparable influence of Asian heritage, natural science, visual art, sound art and literature to deliver a playful and humorous interpretation of an apocalyptic dystopia/utopia. Via an excessive and exaggerated sensory experience she asks what essentially defines a being as a human. A speculative scenario of an endosymbiotic post-human species called "Homo Paulinella" questions if we would be able to save humanity by turning ourselves into seaweed.

Suggesting a promise of better cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction and upheaval, Yaloo explores the hybridization and ambiguities of the human species while Falby transforms contempt, humiliation, and stigma into a hedonistic celebration and Church presents a biomorphic fleshly universe of subtle dimensionality and fragmented erotic utopia.

About the curators
Ketta Ioannidou, Eun Young Choi and Daniela Kostova are part of IA Curatorial, a NY Based artist-run curatorial collective.

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https://ia-curatorial.org/