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Home > Campus Exhibitions > Gelman Student Exhibitions Gallery > 2016 Exhibitions > Prisoner's Cinema

Prisoner's Cinema

January 22 - March 30, 2016

Participating Artists: Leah Aegerter, Jared Akerstrom, Jeff Allen, Bobby Anspach, Joe Biber, Nicholas Fernandez, Maggie Hazen, Timothy, Sarah Meadows, Nick Missel, Philip Muller, Adam Porter, Thalassa Raasch, Zoe Schlacter, Edek Sher, Calvin Xingpei Shen, William Udell, Tim Wang, Matt Williams, Ziyang Wu, Amelia Zhang

Curatorial Statement: Prisoner’s Cinema draws inspiration from a perceptual phenomenon of the same name that is caused by prolonged solitary exposure to darkness. The experience is most often reported by astronauts, truck drivers, pilots, meditators and prisoners confined to dark cells. They describe seeing colorful patterns of flashing light that refract, vibrate, glitch, form into figures and dematerialize in an intense and overwhelming way.

We took the prisoner’s cinema as an entry point to connect with artists who are exploring themes of isolation, containment, synesthesia, simulation and fragmentation. By blacking out the windows and doors and spotlighting the work only as needed, we immediately immersed the viewer in an adjusted and intimate visual space. Works such as Space for Continuous Eye Contact, by Bobby Anspach, and Peach Blossom Shangri-la 2.0, by Tim Wang and Amelia Zhang, produced their own luminosities. Constant Surround, a multi-channel sound performance by Edek Sher, shifted sound throughout the gallery, responding directly to the space, artworks, audience and concept of the prisoner’s cinema

The artists’ works became apparitions within the darkened gallery, reinforcing moments of transportation, immersion and intimacy that pulled viewers through their own, sometimes sinister, sometimes thrilling, prisoner’s cinema.

Curated by Nick Missel MFA 16 Sculpture and Thalassa Raasch MFA 16 Photography

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