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Mary Magsamen's installation, entitled Floater, combines an instructional video on ballroom dancing with underwater photographs of scuba divers. Also included is a video of the artist dancing with a partner above water wearing scuba gear. This awkward physical comedy appears at first to be about the impossibility of communication and the inevitability of alienation. These satirical elements are disrupted by the reality of the scuba divers' clumsy, though somehow effective, interaction. Working as a team, each diver is dependent on the other for every breath, just as the dancers are dependent on each other for every step. The instructional video is projected on the floor, creating a disorienting viewer participation. All approaches to the instructor are awkward due to the placement of the projector and by the fact that the viewer must cross the projector beam to examine the installation. |
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| Mary
Magsamen received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has exhibited
her work at Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC, and White Columns, NYC. Since her
exhibition at Momenta she has screened her videos and exhibited sculptures
at various spaces, including PS122, NYC, Art in General, NYC, and The Knitting
Factory, NYC. |
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