Site

AUTOMAT
319 N. 11th St

Installed

August 14, 2021 - September 11, 2021

ARTISTS

Hsin-Yu Chen
Christopher Capriotti
Frankie Modesto

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AIR Show 2021 was a group exhibition featuring paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs by Hsin-Yu Chen, Christopher Capriotti, and Frankie Modesto, three artists who completed three-week or month-long residencies at AUTOMAT as part of the 319 AIR program while the building remained closed to the public during COVID-19. On view at AUTOMAT gallery from August 14 - September 11, 2021, the selected works exemplify the experimental approaches engaged by each artist working in isolation during a period of heightened anxiety, displacement, and safety concerns.

Whether utilizing chilly video stills, hazy “rephotographs”, or sensuous poured paint, these artists investigate questions of identity, sexuality, and perception; mining the fertile ground which exists between politics and pleasure, subjective perceptions and objective analysis, and the romanticized, mythologized narrative vs. cold, ordinary reality. These associations and dissociations become more painful, hopeful, and nostalgic set against the backdrop of the pandemic during which they were made, and the global upheaval against which these prismatic,reflective views are contrasted.

All artworks courtesy of the artists. Curation and text by Addison Namnoum and Kimi Pryor, 2023. Documentation by Addison Namnoum