Hexagram # 46, 2004 C-print, fluorescent tubes, plexiglass, aluminum 28" x 24" x 4" Monika Bravo Frequency + Repetition Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery announces "Frequency + Repetition", a new exhibition by Monika Bravo which explores spatial perception as personal experience. Consisting of light encasements and custom-made video boxes, "Frequency + Repetition", Bravo's third solo show in New York. Monika Bravo's recent work focuses on architecture and the urban environment, reflecting on the individual's ability to conjure memories of a particular place in time. Breaking with a long tradition of urban picture-making, Bravo abstracts her subjects and exploits alternative methods of presentation, printing images on translucent film mounted to opaque surfaces, displaying videos using light boxes and video projections. Works on view include the six-part video installation "Dozenfields" (2003-2004), in which footage culled from the artist's travels confounds notions of space. Water and electrical stairways split and shift, creating fragments of space that contain time. In "Raindrops and Corridor" the passage of time is suggested by raindrops freezing in midair and trees casting shadows inside a virtual corridor. Amidst the musical backdrop of Memoryhouse, written by contemporary British composer Max Richter, the viewer is urged to confront her or his spatial and temporal memories. At the core of Bravo's most recent photographic work, "No_Name: Frequency + Repetition" (2004) communicates her long-term interest in eastern philosophy and her experimentation with the structure of the I Ching. Inventive light encasements emit partial representations of hexagrams, saturated with light and color, offering a space for silent and contemplative meditation. Born in 1964 in Columbia, Monika Bravo lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work was recently exhibited in "Urbes Interiores", at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota. Bravo has had a one-person exhibit at Site Sante Fe and recently participated in Arco 2004. In New York, her films have been screened in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Brooklyn Museum, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Bravo was the recipient of a 2002 NYSCA Electronic Media & Film Award. Exhibition: January 13 - February 26, 2005 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 6 pm Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery 601 West 26th Street, Suite 1240 USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 243 88 30 Fax +1 212 243 86 20 Email info@brycewolkowitz.com www.brycewolkowitz.com |
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