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DATES: September 5- 30, 2006 RECEPTION: Saturday, September 9, 5 7 pm |
ADDRESS: 511 West 25 Street, Suite 605, NYC HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday. 12 - 6 PM |
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In her first solo show at SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery Valerie A. Brodar presents The Topography of Fleeting Memories an interactive multimedia installation exploring how a multifaceted identity is created through the flux of memory and a continually shifting sense of place. This two channel video projection installation utilizes prerecorded video, animation, live capture video, vinyl text, salt, and audio collage. It examines how memory can be the spatial and temporal unfolding of the subconscious and how a sense of identity is constructed through remembering and forgetting. Weaving, unraveling, and recreating we build an evolving and forgetting self that is both subtly present and intangibly past, an intricate tapestry of multiple interiors, a dialogue of memories, dreams, and places lost and found. Brodar uses interactive technology to shift an individual's sense of a located self within a virtual world. The viewer engages the video environment through live capture where her/his actions meld with the prerecorded virtual spaces including a bookstore, a vast landscape, and an abandoned industrial building. The second video represents various ways in which we remember: memory strikes unexpectedly like lightning, torments with obsessive reruns, haunts the shadows dancing out of reach, creates a dialogue with history, and forgets. The audio is composed of ambient sounds that create a fluid ephemeral sonic environment. Valerie A. Brodar has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including: The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; the Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago; +Gallery, Denver; the Erie Museum, Pennsylvania; Zico House, Beirut, Lebanon; and the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Miraflores, Peru. She is an Associate Professor at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and received a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
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