Sat October 1, 2022
‘Heavenly Bodies' A solo exhibition of works by Whitney Humphreys
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Vanitas Contemporary Presents:
'Heavenly Bodies'
A solo exhibition of works by Whitney Humphreys
Opening reception 10/1 @ 5-8pm On view 10/1-10/29
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The works in this exhibition confuse the separation between supposed opposites by employing methods of distortion, conflation and repetition. Strength and fragility, armor and cage, past and future, entangle to form a visual vocabulary of disrupted associations. The work's content and processes address the means by which an idealized womanhood has been produced and disseminated across art historical tradition and popular media, and deployed as a tool for bodily control. Woven among cultural signifiers of femininity are instruments of computing, manufacturing, transmission, and acceleration. These connections, evoking a robotic infusion, position gender and power as cultural constructions. Flattened into screens, and made physical within sculptural installations, familiar imagery is taken up and reconfigured, offering new futures forged from pieces left behind.
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'Heavenly Bodies'
A solo exhibition of works by Whitney Humphreys
Opening reception 10/1 @ 5-8pm On view 10/1-10/29
- - - - - - - - -
The works in this exhibition confuse the separation between supposed opposites by employing methods of distortion, conflation and repetition. Strength and fragility, armor and cage, past and future, entangle to form a visual vocabulary of disrupted associations. The work's content and processes address the means by which an idealized womanhood has been produced and disseminated across art historical tradition and popular media, and deployed as a tool for bodily control. Woven among cultural signifiers of femininity are instruments of computing, manufacturing, transmission, and acceleration. These connections, evoking a robotic infusion, position gender and power as cultural constructions. Flattened into screens, and made physical within sculptural installations, familiar imagery is taken up and reconfigured, offering new futures forged from pieces left behind.
Vanitas Contemporary Presents:
'Heavenly Bodies'
A solo exhibition of works by Whitney Humphreys
Opening reception 10/1 @ 5-8pm On view 10/1-10/29
- - - - - - - - -
The works in this exhibition confuse the separation between supposed opposites by employing methods of distortion, conflation and repetition. Strength and fragility, armor and cage, past and future, entangle to form a visual vocabulary of disrupted associations. The work's content and processes address the means by which an idealized womanhood has been produced and disseminated across art historical tradition and popular media, and deployed as a tool for bodily control. Woven among cultural signifiers of femininity are instruments of computing, manufacturing, transmission, and acceleration. These connections, evoking a robotic infusion, position gender and power as cultural constructions. Flattened into screens, and made physical within sculptural installations, familiar imagery is taken up and reconfigured, offering new futures forged from pieces left behind.
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'Heavenly Bodies'
A solo exhibition of works by Whitney Humphreys
Opening reception 10/1 @ 5-8pm On view 10/1-10/29
- - - - - - - - -
The works in this exhibition confuse the separation between supposed opposites by employing methods of distortion, conflation and repetition. Strength and fragility, armor and cage, past and future, entangle to form a visual vocabulary of disrupted associations. The work's content and processes address the means by which an idealized womanhood has been produced and disseminated across art historical tradition and popular media, and deployed as a tool for bodily control. Woven among cultural signifiers of femininity are instruments of computing, manufacturing, transmission, and acceleration. These connections, evoking a robotic infusion, position gender and power as cultural constructions. Flattened into screens, and made physical within sculptural installations, familiar imagery is taken up and reconfigured, offering new futures forged from pieces left behind.
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909 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
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