leaving the american sektor
ANA WOLOVICK
June 19 - September 11, 2018*
*GALLERY CLOSED ALL AUGUST
Press Release:
With each day more bizarre than the previous; how can one attempt to make sense of who, where and what we are now?
Daily—we experience the conflation of truth and fiction. Facts warp into phantasmagoria. We are living in an altered state. The works in Leaving the American Sektor attempt to address this newspeak—messing with our sense of “which images/which texts belong together.” Wolovick constructs amalgams, hybrid worlds that offer an inverted map of disquieted comprehension. Her abstract documentaries comment back on each other in sardonic, sometimes humorous ways. We see ourselves, we don’t. We work together, we are isolated. These oxymorons inform these lush, irreverent composites. Like a fun-house mirror, Wolovick’s works force us to look at ourselves: elongated, distorted, stretched across each other in unseemly, almost impossible ways. What is site? What is “country?” What is belonging? These questions plague Wolovick’s work, her practice—it is this tension that drives the exhibition.
Leaving the American Sektor is a visual analog to contemporary political noise. It suggests a way out, as it points us back inward; it suggests a way forward, as it spirals us back into the vertigo of history.
