FUTURO PERFECTO
Futuro Perfecto March 10, 2011 - April 9, 2011
Curated By Anthony Allen And Katayoun Vaziri
Artists:
Brooke Berger, Christi Birchfield, Tim Campbell, Ximena Diaz, Tracey
Goodman, Sarah Hotchkiss, Nicholas Johnston, David Leggett, Mary
Mattingly, Eliza Myrie, Jonathan Peck, Chris Samuels, Mike Schuwerk,
Jessica Segall, SKOTE, Fabian G Tabibian, Jessica Wheelock, Brian
Zegeer, Raphael Zollinger
...The
future perfect is, in a sense, a grammatical combination of the future
and the past. It is used to indicate an action that will have taken
place before another action or point in the future; and it can also
express probability or supposition about events or situations in the
past. The exhibition Futuro Perfecto, which takes its title from one of
the works on view, brings together the work of 19 artists and one
collaborative, all alumni of the Skowhegan residency program for
emerging visual artists. In the title work, a video log of abandoned
construction sites, the camera advances forward while simultaneously
zooming out, thus creating a shifting and unsettling expression of
stasis. Likewise, many of the works on view share concerns related to
the experience of historical and personal time today. Are we moving
ahead or mired in quicksand? Is the present our escape from the
unattainable past and the impending future? Can visual codes be
recycled and repurposed? In the digital age, have "here" and "now"
become avatars? The tectonics of today result from shifts between
revolution and continuity, production and destruction, the global and
the personal. The artists gathered here find new strategies to make
these fault lines visible.
Anthony Allen, curator of Parsons MFA
show 2009 is an independent curator, scholar and translator, and is
also associate director of Paula Cooper Gallery.
