Sun November 9, 2014
Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos: New Work by Sofia Cordova
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October 11, 2014 – November 9, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday, 10/11, 7 - 10 pm
Performance: I Do it Clean, Friday, 10/31, 8 - 10 pm
Sofía Córdova (with Matthew Kirkland) will play a live show consisting of the ‘pop’ versions of songs featured in the exhibition.
About the Exhibition
Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos, a solo exhibition of new work by Sofía Córdova, describes a future located specifically around the Caribbean, where an unidentified series of events have led to the decline of current civilization--radically challenging human existence on Earth. Expanding from more personal, autobiographical investigations into the creation of self, identity and the influence of cultural constructions, this exhibition presents a darker, more global space, where she has, in her own words, “collected the relics of our past, gleaned from our current future.”
Telling this story through a collective and eschatological voice, the installation incorporates multi-channel video, photographs, painting, collage, music, performance, and works on fabric. The Kingdom is Me, a large series of redaction paintings, where black paint obscures the majority of various found magazine and photographic images, serve as incomplete traces of past civilization. In They Held Dances on The Graves of Those Who Died In The Terror 1,2,3,4,5,6 + 7, the fading natural world is depicted in a six-channel digitized and distorted 8mm film work, set to a sound piece, Fantasia, made by Matt Kirkland. Fantasia is a composition borrowing from Mariah Carey’s Fantasy and Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love. The videos are digital re-recordings of the projections of 8mm black and white films shot in Miami, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. The cover describes (in Spanish) a world where dances are held on concrete slabs under a dying sun and human survivors are in constant peril, not just from hostile conditions, but from each other. The track is split into six channels on individual screens which, along with the video, fall out of sync over time rendering different combinations of the visual and audio material.
For the video work, Echoes of A Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos) #1, Córdova’s alter ego finds herself as a nameless, traveling griot. Through a series of songs and performances, she describes the world before and after an unspecified event which ends culture as we know it. Creating original music per her role as a griot, Córdova along with other performers, string together a quasi-narrative video performance, detailing this world and its denizens. The characters recite lines given to them by Córdova, which she later overdubs and distorts to highlight what starts to become a shifting new language. These characters also step out of the screen and into various photographic works pointing to Córdova’s interest in working with these characters as they might be in a video game.
Drawing from a variety of sources including sci-fi authors (such as Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. LeGuin), pop music (from Yoko Ono to Mariah Carey), and Japanese role-playing games, among others, these multimedia works serve as prophetic windows into a latent future for our planet and species.
About the Artist
Sofía Córdova was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received her BFA from St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2006, and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Sofía Córdova was recently awarded a Kala Fellowship. She has performed at SFMOMA, SomArts and Southern Exposure, among others. Her work has been exhibited at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, AMOA/Art House, Galeria de la Raza, Queen’s Nails, The International Center of Photography as well as other venues internationally. Her work is part of Pier 24’s permanent collection.
https://www.sofiacordova.com
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Opening reception: Saturday, 10/11, 7 - 10 pm
Performance: I Do it Clean, Friday, 10/31, 8 - 10 pm
Sofía Córdova (with Matthew Kirkland) will play a live show consisting of the ‘pop’ versions of songs featured in the exhibition.
About the Exhibition
Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos, a solo exhibition of new work by Sofía Córdova, describes a future located specifically around the Caribbean, where an unidentified series of events have led to the decline of current civilization--radically challenging human existence on Earth. Expanding from more personal, autobiographical investigations into the creation of self, identity and the influence of cultural constructions, this exhibition presents a darker, more global space, where she has, in her own words, “collected the relics of our past, gleaned from our current future.”
Telling this story through a collective and eschatological voice, the installation incorporates multi-channel video, photographs, painting, collage, music, performance, and works on fabric. The Kingdom is Me, a large series of redaction paintings, where black paint obscures the majority of various found magazine and photographic images, serve as incomplete traces of past civilization. In They Held Dances on The Graves of Those Who Died In The Terror 1,2,3,4,5,6 + 7, the fading natural world is depicted in a six-channel digitized and distorted 8mm film work, set to a sound piece, Fantasia, made by Matt Kirkland. Fantasia is a composition borrowing from Mariah Carey’s Fantasy and Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love. The videos are digital re-recordings of the projections of 8mm black and white films shot in Miami, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. The cover describes (in Spanish) a world where dances are held on concrete slabs under a dying sun and human survivors are in constant peril, not just from hostile conditions, but from each other. The track is split into six channels on individual screens which, along with the video, fall out of sync over time rendering different combinations of the visual and audio material.
For the video work, Echoes of A Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos) #1, Córdova’s alter ego finds herself as a nameless, traveling griot. Through a series of songs and performances, she describes the world before and after an unspecified event which ends culture as we know it. Creating original music per her role as a griot, Córdova along with other performers, string together a quasi-narrative video performance, detailing this world and its denizens. The characters recite lines given to them by Córdova, which she later overdubs and distorts to highlight what starts to become a shifting new language. These characters also step out of the screen and into various photographic works pointing to Córdova’s interest in working with these characters as they might be in a video game.
Drawing from a variety of sources including sci-fi authors (such as Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. LeGuin), pop music (from Yoko Ono to Mariah Carey), and Japanese role-playing games, among others, these multimedia works serve as prophetic windows into a latent future for our planet and species.
About the Artist
Sofía Córdova was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received her BFA from St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2006, and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Sofía Córdova was recently awarded a Kala Fellowship. She has performed at SFMOMA, SomArts and Southern Exposure, among others. Her work has been exhibited at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, AMOA/Art House, Galeria de la Raza, Queen’s Nails, The International Center of Photography as well as other venues internationally. Her work is part of Pier 24’s permanent collection.
https://www.sofiacordova.com
October 11, 2014 – November 9, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday, 10/11, 7 - 10 pm
Performance: I Do it Clean, Friday, 10/31, 8 - 10 pm
Sofía Córdova (with Matthew Kirkland) will play a live show consisting of the ‘pop’ versions of songs featured in the exhibition.
About the Exhibition
Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos, a solo exhibition of new work by Sofía Córdova, describes a future located specifically around the Caribbean, where an unidentified series of events have led to the decline of current civilization--radically challenging human existence on Earth. Expanding from more personal, autobiographical investigations into the creation of self, identity and the influence of cultural constructions, this exhibition presents a darker, more global space, where she has, in her own words, “collected the relics of our past, gleaned from our current future.”
Telling this story through a collective and eschatological voice, the installation incorporates multi-channel video, photographs, painting, collage, music, performance, and works on fabric. The Kingdom is Me, a large series of redaction paintings, where black paint obscures the majority of various found magazine and photographic images, serve as incomplete traces of past civilization. In They Held Dances on The Graves of Those Who Died In The Terror 1,2,3,4,5,6 + 7, the fading natural world is depicted in a six-channel digitized and distorted 8mm film work, set to a sound piece, Fantasia, made by Matt Kirkland. Fantasia is a composition borrowing from Mariah Carey’s Fantasy and Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love. The videos are digital re-recordings of the projections of 8mm black and white films shot in Miami, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. The cover describes (in Spanish) a world where dances are held on concrete slabs under a dying sun and human survivors are in constant peril, not just from hostile conditions, but from each other. The track is split into six channels on individual screens which, along with the video, fall out of sync over time rendering different combinations of the visual and audio material.
For the video work, Echoes of A Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos) #1, Córdova’s alter ego finds herself as a nameless, traveling griot. Through a series of songs and performances, she describes the world before and after an unspecified event which ends culture as we know it. Creating original music per her role as a griot, Córdova along with other performers, string together a quasi-narrative video performance, detailing this world and its denizens. The characters recite lines given to them by Córdova, which she later overdubs and distorts to highlight what starts to become a shifting new language. These characters also step out of the screen and into various photographic works pointing to Córdova’s interest in working with these characters as they might be in a video game.
Drawing from a variety of sources including sci-fi authors (such as Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. LeGuin), pop music (from Yoko Ono to Mariah Carey), and Japanese role-playing games, among others, these multimedia works serve as prophetic windows into a latent future for our planet and species.
About the Artist
Sofía Córdova was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received her BFA from St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2006, and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Sofía Córdova was recently awarded a Kala Fellowship. She has performed at SFMOMA, SomArts and Southern Exposure, among others. Her work has been exhibited at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, AMOA/Art House, Galeria de la Raza, Queen’s Nails, The International Center of Photography as well as other venues internationally. Her work is part of Pier 24’s permanent collection.
https://www.sofiacordova.com
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Opening reception: Saturday, 10/11, 7 - 10 pm
Performance: I Do it Clean, Friday, 10/31, 8 - 10 pm
Sofía Córdova (with Matthew Kirkland) will play a live show consisting of the ‘pop’ versions of songs featured in the exhibition.
About the Exhibition
Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos, a solo exhibition of new work by Sofía Córdova, describes a future located specifically around the Caribbean, where an unidentified series of events have led to the decline of current civilization--radically challenging human existence on Earth. Expanding from more personal, autobiographical investigations into the creation of self, identity and the influence of cultural constructions, this exhibition presents a darker, more global space, where she has, in her own words, “collected the relics of our past, gleaned from our current future.”
Telling this story through a collective and eschatological voice, the installation incorporates multi-channel video, photographs, painting, collage, music, performance, and works on fabric. The Kingdom is Me, a large series of redaction paintings, where black paint obscures the majority of various found magazine and photographic images, serve as incomplete traces of past civilization. In They Held Dances on The Graves of Those Who Died In The Terror 1,2,3,4,5,6 + 7, the fading natural world is depicted in a six-channel digitized and distorted 8mm film work, set to a sound piece, Fantasia, made by Matt Kirkland. Fantasia is a composition borrowing from Mariah Carey’s Fantasy and Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love. The videos are digital re-recordings of the projections of 8mm black and white films shot in Miami, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. The cover describes (in Spanish) a world where dances are held on concrete slabs under a dying sun and human survivors are in constant peril, not just from hostile conditions, but from each other. The track is split into six channels on individual screens which, along with the video, fall out of sync over time rendering different combinations of the visual and audio material.
For the video work, Echoes of A Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos) #1, Córdova’s alter ego finds herself as a nameless, traveling griot. Through a series of songs and performances, she describes the world before and after an unspecified event which ends culture as we know it. Creating original music per her role as a griot, Córdova along with other performers, string together a quasi-narrative video performance, detailing this world and its denizens. The characters recite lines given to them by Córdova, which she later overdubs and distorts to highlight what starts to become a shifting new language. These characters also step out of the screen and into various photographic works pointing to Córdova’s interest in working with these characters as they might be in a video game.
Drawing from a variety of sources including sci-fi authors (such as Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. LeGuin), pop music (from Yoko Ono to Mariah Carey), and Japanese role-playing games, among others, these multimedia works serve as prophetic windows into a latent future for our planet and species.
About the Artist
Sofía Córdova was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received her BFA from St. John’s University in Queens, NY in 2006, and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. Sofía Córdova was recently awarded a Kala Fellowship. She has performed at SFMOMA, SomArts and Southern Exposure, among others. Her work has been exhibited at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, AMOA/Art House, Galeria de la Raza, Queen’s Nails, The International Center of Photography as well as other venues internationally. Her work is part of Pier 24’s permanent collection.
https://www.sofiacordova.com
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