VITRINE
EXHIBITION SERIES
APR 20, 2023
–
MAY 20, 2023
Virocode
Seedlings
Seedlings includes selected works by virocode, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Peter D'Auria, Andrea Mancuso, and Claudia D’Auria. The exhibition features prints and video from an installation with imagery of cell phone towers that explore their looming yet often invisible technological presence in the “natural” landscape.
“In ‘Seedlings’ we observe the radical development of cell towers sprouting to nourish us in a manner not dissimilar from wheat or anything that springs from the ground. We are now the earth + towers . . . The jagged flowing structure upon which the ‘Seedling’ photographs are applied alludes to the persistent and jagged path of communication as it courses across the landscape.” — virocode
virocode is a collaborative effort of Peter D'Auria, Andrea Mancuso, and Claudia D’Auria that has been exhibiting work in photography, video, installation and the digital arts throughout the United States and in Europe including: The Museum of Modern Art in the New York City; Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco; The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA, Diverseworks Art Space in Houston, TX, Impakt Festival in The Netherlands, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruck, DE and at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Squeaky Wheel and Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY.
Artists’ Statement About the Work
In "Seedlings" we observe the radical development of cell towers sprouting to nourish us in a manner not dissimilar from wheat or anything that springs from the ground. We are now the earth + towers. Some may apply ethical concerns to the growth of cell towers, our artwork strives to visualize the obvious. "What we perceive as Being includes the non-biological, that's why we talk to objects." The jagged flowing structure upon which the Seedling’s photographs are applied alludes to the persistent and jagged path of communication as it courses across the landscape. The photographs are printed on metal and installed on a structure that keeps them angled to the wall. The transmission signals have been visualized in the shapes of interconnected blooming and blossoming wave patterns. Seedlings consists of 28 images joined together in segments to make a continuous work 24’ long.
— virocode