MEMORY AS COLLAGE
at 14BC Gallery
Interwoven with desire and pain, memory abstracts truth into a simulacrum of experience, embedding the warp of feeling into its structure. It resides between reality and dream, acting as a collage of truth and emotion. Combining personal and collective histories, memory also allows us to connect to our ancestors and make sense of our present. In this exhibition, artists investigate the ebb and flow of fact and fiction in memory through the medium of collage, creating objects which imagine a hybrid reality of emotional truth. Using formal strategies which complicate reading of the subject as a coherent whole, these artists create a multiplicity of meaning born out of the matrix of memory.
Cyber-Realization: A Genre Bending Group Show
At Greenpoint Gallery
Cyber-Realization: A Genre-Bending Group Show is an exhibition of tech-based art that celebrates our real world experiences through a virtual lens. Engaging with the virtual worlds within video games, projections, AR, and VR provides inspiration beyond what is possible in the physical world. Cyber-realization art captures this inspiration from both physical and digital/ virtual worlds to create authentic and novel outcomes.
Microcosm
at the Pratt Photography Gallery
"Microcosm" is an exhibition that Hansen worked on for 2 years. All of these pieces are inspired by Dead Horse Bay, a hidden gem in Brooklyn, NY that she has been visiting, photographing, and collecting from for a long time. This eclectic beach has been a home to trash and other odd objects since the mid twentieth century and throughout its life it has become evident that the natural landscape and the items it holds support each other. The two opposing forces have become intertwined to one another and impossible to separate.
