Wednesday, June 29 to August 07, 2016
153 ½ Stanton St., New York, New York 10002
Sadr Haghighian’s exhibition actualizes these themes within the space at Kai Matsumiya. A series of nouns, such as “father/lovebird; slave/painter; racist/prisoner; victim/criminal” are projected onto the same space of wall by two discordant projectors. As a result, the words are scrambled and illegible, only becoming decipherable when someone steps in front of the picture eliminating one projection, but leaving the other. The individual then becomes part of the picture with one noun appearing within their shadow on the wall, and the other appearing on the individual’s body.
Kai Matsumiya presents Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s two-channel video projection, “Empire of the Senseless II” (2006) and a series of works on paper made from luminous paint with fingerprints. The title is a reference to Kathy Acker’s 1988 novel of a post-apocalyptic world.
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