War Against Magic
Gallery Kayafas is pleased to present War Against Magic, curated by Stephanie Dvareckas. Sight is such an unreliable thing. We use it to make sense of the world around us, but sometimes sight is deceiving. War Against Magic, is an exhibition comprised of various pieces that depart from our commonly held notions of the visual world. Each artist is conveying a skewed sense of space and reality and exploits the delicate subtleties in human perception. In War Against Magic, one is able to realize the ambiguity in the perception of space.
Artists include: Jenna Westra, Carlos Jimenez Cahua, Jack Wesley Schneider, Kirk Amaral Snow, Unum Babar, and Zachary Herrmann.
Jenna Westra - Recording staged moments with her camera, Westra repurposes objects and places them in space where dimension is often indecipherable.
Carlos Jimenez Cahua - With firm roots in photography, Jimenez Cahua challenges the photographic process along with the ver meaning of “image” and how it relates to one’s perception of art.
Jack Wesley Schneider - Exploiting popular patterns and pop culture, Schneider uses color and motifs to toy with our perception of space and the meanings we derive from color.
Kirk Amaral Snow - Using ready-made forms, Kirk Amaral Snow alters functionality and the viewer’s perception of objects and their purposes.
Unum Babar and Zachary Herrmann - This work serves as the beginning of a collaborative relationship between not just two artists but also two very distinctly media, that of sculpture and video. Through this investigation we aim to explore new meanings of time, narrative and perception. We expect that the real and the illusion will activate each other in ways to form unprecedented realities and unique stories. -Babar & Herrmann