Coagulants | Group Exhibiton

If images flow through the digital world like blood through the veins, the works included in this show clot that flow. They present points where images from myriad sources congeal. These viscous artworks slow down the usually rapid consumption of digital media through their densely layered and complexly referential compositions. Not only must we look longer and closer at these pieces to discern what it is we are seeing, but when their constituent elements are parsed it becomes clear that these works are tied to specific localities and positionalities, rather than the disembodied globalness which often characterizes the digital realm.

Some images don’t glide as seamlessly across the globe as others. Some disasters are localized, some information doesn’t make it passed borders and some people bring many places with them as they travel. These artists curdle the seemingly unmoored flow of digital images to comment on environmental crisis, diasporic identity and access to information.

Group Exhibition featuring Shanna Merola, Nkiruka Oparah, and Sheida Solemani

Curated by Emily Leifer