transmissions: algoritmos, polyrhythms, karuraqmi purinay
yanira collado • onajida shabaka • juana valdes
curated by william cordova
“contradiction is the ruling principle of the universe, that everything is in a constant state of transformation”
-Dr.H.Percy Newton
By Elliot Reichert
Across the gallery, six collages by Onajide Shabaka speak a different tongue. Although they are chaotic in composition, the elements of these constructions fuse more seamlessly than those of Collado. In most of the works, a geometric form bisects the field vertically, organizing space and creating orientation like a totemic structure making order from the chaos of the cosmos. Two works are much less marshaled, disrupting the emerging logic and pushing away from an easy interpretation of Shabaka’s esoteric investigations in form. A video work, played on a small flatscreen mounted to the adjacent wall, pairs anonymous images of Florida swamps with a voiceover of an early twentieth century sheriff’s report of mysterious apparition in the bayou. At times, the spoken word seems to correspond with the picture, but the image eventually fails to deliver on the phantasmagoria described, and so a gap opens in the semiotic structure of the work.
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