Join Burlington City Arts for its Spring Exhibitions Opening Reception on February 22 from 5-8 p.m. Admission is free.
The BCA Center will feature four exhibitions from February 22-June 9, 2019. The BCA Center is located at 135 Church Street.
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IMPERFECT SOCIETIES
February 22, 2019 - June 9, 2019
Roth Gallery, 2nd Floor, BCA Center
Featuring film and photography, Imperfect Societies probes themes of history, trauma, and nationhood set within the tropes of science fiction. In Icarus 13: The First Journey to the Sun, Kiluanji Kia Henda plunges viewers into parallel traditions at pivotal movements in Angolan history, from the politics of Marxism-Leninism to the practice of witchcraft, as told within sci-fi narratives of the Cold War. Henda employs a sense of humor and criticality in his videos and photography, which often investigates themes of identity, politics, and perceptions of post-colonialism and modernism in Africa. Vietnamese-born artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s work questions the individual’s relationship to history, nationhood, and cultural displacement. In Nguyen’s short film The Island, shot on the Malaysian island Pulau Bidong (once the largest and longest-operating refugee camp after the Vietnam War that also housed Nguyen and his family) we encounter a dystopian future focused on the last two people on earth.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s The Island courtesy for the artist and James Cohan, New York
Kiluanji Kia Henda’s Icarus 13: The First Journey to the Sun courtesy for the artist and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
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ALM@ PÉREZ ROBOPOEMS: QUADRUPED@S
February 22, 2019 - June 9, 2019
Lower Level, BCA Center
Robopoems is an interdisciplinary project created by Alm@ Pérez (Tina Escaja) that combines poetry, photography, sound, and technology that explores the intersection of robotics and humanity. Escaja creates interactive sculptures in the form of insect-like robots whose legs and bodies are engraved with bilingual poetry written from the robot’s point of view (using the artist’s original Spanish with English translation). Her creations resemble insects or spiders embodying the underlying anxiety and problematic relationship many of us have with technology. Through robotic sculptures and large-scale photographs, the artist emphasizes the existential exchange between robots and humans, correlating technology with art and poetics.
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ADORNED: HAIRSTYLES OF AN ANCIENT DYNASTY
February 22, 2019 - June 9, 2019
1st floor, BCA Center
Barbara Zucker’s Adorned: Hairstyles of an Ancient Dynasty features paintings and an installation of acrylic abstractions inspired by the stylized hairstyles of Tang dynasty tomb figures. Zucker is fascinated by the complex ways in which hair has been used by cultures to convey status, ethnicity, sexuality, and power throughout the world. Since the 1990s, the artist has explored the subject of hair in her sculpture – how it is shaped, removed, or adorned – to create perceptive, often humorous, observations on gender and culture.
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REBECCA WEISMAN: SKIN EGO
February 22, 2019 - June 9, 2019
1st floor, BCA Center
In Skin Ego, Rebecca Weisman creates a large-scale installation that includes an eight by twenty foot sculptural recreation of a stranded whale that visitors can enter and explore. Incorporating film and performance within her surreal environment, the artist spins a provocative tale about the interconnection between mind and body – our unconscious and our skin.
Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego is commissioned in part by BCA Center. Skin Ego is the third installment of Project Vermont, a new series dedicated to experimentation by providing a setting for contemporary Vermont artists to push their artistic practice while creating new work. Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego is commissioned in part by BCA Center.
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Learn more at www.burlingtoncityarts.org.
BCA Exhibitions are funded in part by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Arts Council.
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