Liliana Farber

Artist Statement

Through research-based processes and using digital strategies, I create still and moving images, installations, and web-based works. These investigate notions of land imaginaries, unmappable spaces, utopias, and techno-colonialism. I use timestamps, geolocation points, satellite imagery, antique maps, and literature as raw materials for minimal pieces that reflect on the human experience of living within global scale infrastructures and colossal amounts of data. As a third-generation holocaust survivor, my intergenerational trauma inspires my practice. There is a sense of incompleteness and illegibility in my work. It contrasts the sense of being lost or disconnected in a hyper mapped and connected world.

Blue Reflections, 2023, single channel video, steel plate, lava stones, sound, variable dimensions Digital oceans, captured in Google Earth, are intertwined as glass pieces inside a kaleidoscope.

Bio

Liliana Farber is an Uruguayan-born, New York-based, visual artist. Through research-based processes and using digital strategies, Farber investigates notions of land imaginaries, unmappable spaces, utopias, and techno-colonialism. Her work was exhibited at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon; The Center for Books Art, New York; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Arebyte Gallery, London; Panke Gallery, Berlin; and The National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay, among others. Farber is a recipient of the Lumen Prize, Artis grant, and Asylum Arts grant. She was an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Projects, NY, Nars Foundation, NYC, Arebyte Gallery (online), and Off Site Projects (online). Her work is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum collection in London and numerous private collections worldwide. She has been featured in On Curating, Switzerland; MIT’s Leonardo Journal, USA; and Haaretz, Israel. Farber received her MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and her BA from ORT University, Uruguay.


https://www.lilianafarber.com/

Jennifer Viola

Artist Statement

I make mixed media drawings utilizing pen, pencil, ink, gouache, acrylic, watercolor, spraypaint, oilstick, pastel, charcoal, coffee, tea or collage. I consider how to make a mark in order to convey the most with the least: light, dark, texture, energy, effort. Starting points can be impulsive: the radiant color of a Dorito, the eccentric pattern of a stone floor. Or they can be prompts to a memory: piano keys for childhood guilt over not practicing, a ring of keys for tearing apart my apartment searching for the set in my pocket. My drawings are a repository of memory, an unreliable diary, a tool to horde my surroundings. The crux of my process is to revise, exaggerate and recontextualize these various elements into an imagined still life that manages to evoke a kind of poetry. I want to reconfigure reality to reveal what is hidden, the cryptic omens in minutae.

Jennifer Viola, "Restless Legs," Mixed media on paper, 2023, 30 x 44 inches

Bio

Jennifer Viola is originally from Upstate New York. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She was an Artist in Residence at the Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and a Macdowell Fellowship . She has worked in a variety of media: painting, found-object and ceramic sculpture, and drawing. Jennifer currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Riegelsville, Pennsylvania.


www.jenniferviola.com