Cecilia Salama @ Arts + Leisure, Jul 21 – Sep 11

, 19 July 2016
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Cecilia Salama is presenting solo exhibition The Butterfly Reprise at New York’s Arts + Leisure, opening July 21 and running to  September 11.

The artist, whose domain/domain exhibition documentation featured on aqnb earlier this year, features a new body of work, including a series of sculptures and video installation. The press release opens with a short poem alluding to lost love, alienation and depravity:

This year I fell in love with a gymnast I’ve never met.
I think it’s easier this way, she’s most likely underage. I grab her forcefully…

The text goes on to point to themes of “fantasy, displaced desire, romance and delusion” in an exhibition made up of entirely synthetic materials responding to the contemporary “dilemma of digital convenience” that creates its own kind of loneliness.

See the Arts + Leisure website for details.**

Cecilia Salama, domain/domain (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy The Java Project, New York.
Cecilia Salama, domain/domain (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy The Java Project, New York.

Header image: Cecilia Salama, ‘Together Again’ (2016). Video still. Courtesy the artist.