Jennifer Bolande: Cut up the newspaper, and random connections make for some unexpected depth
The Los Angeles Times reviews Department of Art Professor Jennifer Bolande's exhibition at the gallery Pio Pico, on view through February 17, calling the show a "stirring adventure." Read more about Professor Bolande and see images from her studio here.
"Jennifer Bolande's subtly provocative film 'The Composition of Decomposition,' projected on a wall at the gallery Pio Pico, presents like a 48-minute slide show: Every five seconds or so, the screen is refreshed, and one pair of side-by-side images is replaced by another.Each image is of a partial page of the New York Times. We might see a fragment of an ad, a corner of a photograph or half of an article. The film, composed of about 400 such spreads, is a serial collage that unfurls against an instrumental score — a montage of percussive, found and synthesized sounds.
The format proposes a relationship between the paired images, and the mind scrambles for traction — responding, processing, categorizing, distilling, making sense and searching for meaning."— Leah Ollman, December 15, 2018
This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the Los Angeles Times website.
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