Kevin Malella: Before Vinyl Skylines
@ The Plaines Project
1822 S Desplaines St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Friday, April 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, May 5th
Before Vinyl Skylines features a new body of work exploring urban and industrial landscapes through cyanotype photograms of plant object arrangements. In this project, Malella continues his interests in both the collaboration and struggle between natural processes and human persistence as well as their perceived dissonance by which our physical world is shaped.
Much of Malella’s recent work deals primarily with a collision of three elements: nature, human activity, and time. For him, “time” is the key factor in the relationship between humans and nature as one seemingly dominates the other in procession, only again to be succeeded, thus exposing how indistinct they are from each other. Human activity subverts nature and nature consequently emerges from its displaced form, both contributing a permanent mark of their singular progression over time.
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