Playpen
September 2016
Works by Fernando Pezzino and Vamba Bility
Physical objects, virtual customs, sociocultural structures, technology, and the myth-self filtered through cultural assimilation are explored in playpen, presenting the work of Fernando Pezzino and Vamba Bility. How we might navigate these complicated truths are performed through acts of play – expressive gestures teetering the line between haphazard and poignantly directed, and puzzle surfaces as a backdrop for layered dynamism together reveal questions about connectivity, cultural diaspora, and cultural bias. Bility and Pezzino question the social and cultural subsystems of our everyday, and re-imagine the larger structure as an enclosed environment growing smaller by the realities of technology, colonialism, urbanism and globalization. In playpen, the two artists reimagine the gallery as enclosed space where we may confront these questions.
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