Angela Su: Melencolia
Angela Su: Melencolia
The works assembled for the exhibition include installations, speculative docufiction videos, and drawings and hair embroideries of composite cyborgian bodies.
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Wallach Art Gallery
February 02, 2024 to March 10, 2024
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Exhibition Details

This exhibition is the artist's first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere. The works assembled for the exhibition include installations, speculative docufiction videos, and drawings and hair embroideries of composite cyborgian bodies. Activating historical filmic language or the power of intricate monochromatic line, Su envisions out-of-body experiences and the interiors of bodies in pursuit of the dialogic relationship between extreme practices of constraint and physical and psychic resistance to social controls.

Additional Details

Accessing the liberating power of metamorphosis, hybridity, and transformation, her worlds—from micro (human cells) to macro (outer space)—turn the follies of the past and the incomplete imaginaries of the present into a magical space for self-reflection. Su interrogates the lengths human beings will take to control their own and others’ bodies even to the extent of summoning fantastical, irreverent, violent, and aspirational states to reach the seemingly impossible unknown.

Location

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027

Image: Detail of Laden Raven, Angela Su, 2022 / courtesy of Wallach Art Gallery