Saya Woolfalk
ChimaTEK Beta Launch, 2014
Smack Mellon, NY
My Role: Curator / Exhibition designer / Produced multimedia exhibition and managed installation and deinstallation.
Awarded Best Exhibition in Dumbo Arts Festival 2014
Selected press:
Hyperallergic- Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
Hyperallergic - Get Your Fix of a Sinister Post-Human Future
Brooklyn Magazine - Best Art Exhibits of 2015
Fast forwarding to a post-human future in Chimatek Beta Launch, Saya Woolfalk expands on the utopian narrative of her fictional species of women, the Empathics, who manipulate their genetic information to blend racial and ethnic identities and acquire characteristics of humans and plants during their transformations. In this immersive installation, the Empathics present their newly formed corporation, Chimatek, offering a patented technology which provides interspecies and intersubjective hybridization.
Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. She has exhibited at Montclair Art Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art; PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Frist Center for the Visual Arts; The Yerba Buena Center; The Newark Museum; Third Streaming; MCA San Diego; MoCA Taipei; and Performa 09; and has been written about in the New Yorker, Sculpture Magazine, Artforum, Artforum.com, ARTNews, The New York Times, Huffington Post and on Art21’s blog.
More info about the exhibition on Smack Mellon website.
Image courtesy of the artist and Smack Mellon. Photo by Etienne Frossard.