BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAYSince her last show at Galerie Swanstrom this fall in New York, and Scope Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Beach this past December, gilf! has been tirelessly at work in the studio. Pulling inspiration from her recent travels to Berlin, and her large scale outdoor installation at Fountain Art Fair in Miami, she is proud to present a new body of work for her solo show I EXAM, with Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art Gallery this February. Please join us for an artist’s reception Thursday February 7th, from 6-9pm at 111 Front Street suite 222 in D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn. The show runs from February 3rd- March 10th.
Created to challenge the viewer to see beyond distractions of the syndicated voice, I EXAM divulges an insightful response to the dizzying noise of our society.
These works consider the modern correlation between effort and understanding. In this age of digital preoccupation, we are trained by society to value speed, self, and efficiency. Our waning attention spans hinder us from being present, and from recognizing what is truly important in our communities. We stay on the surface, repeating sound bites, but not investigating the full story. We align ourselves with brands that we believe represent us, when we too often don’t take the time to find that true self.
Continuously inflated egos have narrowed our critical eye to a myopic lens focused on the self. We believe we no longer need one another for survival, and that an abstract number on an ATM receipt can measure success and happiness. As the bonds of community unknowingly disintegrate, we lose the ability to understand large-scale problems as unaffected individuals. These issues don’t immediately affect our daily lives, but instead linger in the shadows of a foreboding future. Are we capable of looking beyond the noise to regain understanding of our true reality?
I EXAM challenges our inclination to blindly accept societal norms, rousing the viewer to wake from the comfort of that hypnotic state to embody reality in its most authentic form.
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew,
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many, they are few”
-Percy Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy 1819
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