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Serpentine is a projected video piece by KRISTINE MARXthat
transforms the main space at Fringe into an enveloping installation. It
is an environment in flux. Sinuous black and white lines curve and
straighten as they slide along the 30-foot gallery wall and floor
towards a shifting central axis. The projections seem to soften, bend
and warp the gallery's architecture. The abstract imagery moves through
a series of permutations. Lines overlap and separate. They are
initially sparse, then build up to a dense, nearly illegible
complexity. The pattern expands and contracts, travels upwards and then
slides downwards. The reflective surface of an adjacent wall creates
the illusion of a continuous field. The video's sculptural presence
involves the viewer on a physical level, engaging the body as an
instrument of perception. Its undulating linear imagery and
relationship to the gallery's architecture destabilizes the viewer's
expectations of interior space. The installation points to the
instability of what is seen and what is actually there.
The works on paper continue ideas explored in the
installation. In the drawings, simple, repetitive, linear forms build
up to create complex structures. Through overlapping and interlacing,
the images play with perception and assumptions of visual order. The
drawings flirt with the boundary between line/shape and
abstraction/figuration.
KRISTINE MARX lives and works in New York City. In her work, she
investigates the ambiguities of perception through relationships
between image, space and architecture. She earned a BA from Sarah
Lawrence College and MFA from Hunter College in New York. She has
exhibited her work most recently at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburg,
Plane Space, New York, Herrmann and Wagner, Berlin, and the Mudima
Center, Milan. She has been awarded various grants including a NYSCA
grant in 2007 and a residency grant from the Mattress Factory in 2006.
Last year she lived in Finland for the summer as a resident artist at
Kolin Ryynanen Centre for Arts and Culture. In New York, she teaches
digital art at Parsons School of Design and Hunter College, CUNY.
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