From April 23 to June 22, UK artist Hannah Sawtell will enjoy her first solo museum presentation, “Accumulator”, in the Lobby Gallery of NYC’s The New Museum.
The multimedia artist—often working through installation, video, print, sound, as well as performance—explores the relationship between the surfaces of objects and images and their multifaceted underlying structures. As The New Museum describes the artist as “render[ing] the fluidity of digital images with spatial, physical, and temporal qualities, and critically point[ing] to their function as decoy indicators for larger and dominating systems of production, access, surplus, and consumption”. The vaguely industrial aesthetic of Sawtell’s work is a further allusion to the repetitive systems of production, and the artist’s previous work as a DJ and part of Detroit’s Plant E Label lends to her art the grating and dynamic rhythm and noise that bolsters her video work and performances.
For her New Museum showcase, Sawtell will present a new sculptural installation and sound work as well as a subsequent edition of her “Broadsheets” publication series. To read more about the event, visit The New Museum’s event page, and for specific event details such as location and timing, visit the aqnb event listing.**
