Video still from Nadja Verena Marcin's Grand Slam. Photography by Jessica Benett via NURTUREart
In the current installment of NURTUREart’s weekly exhibition series We Are:, Guillermo Creus of Fortress to Solitude curates “Live and Let Die.”
This week, three artists exhibit one work each that combine to fill the gallery with an unsettling tension. Sarah Frost’s paper sculpture of a machine gun is the first sight upon entering the space. It sits low to the ground, stark white and menacing. Upon visiting her website, it seems to be a piece from her larger installation “Arsenal” at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Taking perhaps one of the most direct approaches to addressing the relationship of art and money, Ash Sechler stacks a thousand one dollar bills in a neat (surprisingly short) pile in the middle of the gallery floor, forcing the viewer to call into question the value of the piece.
In Nadja Verena Marcin’s video performance, Grand Slam, the artist plays a one-sided tennis match projected high on the gallery walls. In hectic hand-held camera shots, her high-contrast black and white figure ricochets in a blank, indecipherable space. Diegetic echoes of grunts and racket strikes and the echoes the video creates in the high ceiling of the gallery, coalesce into a single anxious soundtrack to the show.
Each piece exudes a matter-of-fact bravado that underscores the visceral reaction their forms incite. See more from each artist below:
“Live and Let Die” is on view at NURTUREart Gallery in Bushwick.
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