Simon Preston Gallery
301 Broome Street, 212-431-1105 East Village / Lower East Side
September 5 - October 26, 2008
Opening: Friday, September 5, 6 - 8PM
Jessica Mein will show two animated videos together with a series of drawings that attempt to capture the patina of time and layered grittiness of the urban landscape. Her videos are comprised of a series of drawings and photographs, in excess of 600 images each, collected predominately from her birthplace in São Paulo and condensed into a complex animated sequence. Each individual image has been cut, collaged and drawn on, incorporating accidents, glitches and errors, which emphasize the characteristics and limitations of the medium. Her drawings employ the quality of mechanized labor, like that of an automaton dutifully performing a task. In an attempt to break the illusion of linear, absolute time, she elicits the perceptual subjectivity of memory. Rather than narrative itself, the work is interested in the physical structure of a story, disrupting technological seamlessness with the inherent faultiness of the handmade.
Jessica Mein graduated from an MFA at Hunter College in New York in 2007. Her previous video, DeleveleD, 2007, is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
1 comment:
The way her blind video created depth on a 2D surface was really incredible. Every time I watched it, and I watched it fully a couple of times, there was something new, And in addition to that, the way it was looped worked to her advantage to making almost a timeless piece. As in, there was no beginning or end. The fact that it was only 2:48 seconds, or around there didn't even register to me, because it was one continuous new thing.
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