Effervescent Reflections l Liquid Cacophony
by Tatyana Murra l David Henry Nobody Jr.
Curated by Coco Dolle
November 19th - December 19th, 2021
Liquid Cacophony is a series of videos of paint-splashed embellished stereotype characters. They were created within a week as an adrenaline performance before the opening of my show. The use of paint on the body comes from breaking down the academic painterly notions of figure-ground relationship, that is the visual relationship between a composition's foreground and illusion. Each video acts as a tableau focused on colors, purple, blue, red, green, orange and yellows. The action of the paint splash transforms each character into the unrecognisable, revealing the emotional. Much like the society of spectacle, the personal becomes a cacophony of nonsense, lost in the digital illusions created by the fabric of our society.The video with color blue shows a crazy professor screaming about smashing the Patriarchy (POTriarchy holding a pot) alluding to firecracker philosopher Slovaj Zizek. The video with the skeleton man in color green references dumb 1990s bands like White Zombie. The red splash piece feels like something out of Warhol's Factory with the Velvet Underground modeling a weird photoshoot. Colors fuschia and green show an OG (original gangster) urban cyclist, a stereotype. The yellow splash character is an early 2000s Electro style club kid, melting on the dance floor, etc.
Effervescent Reflections acted a a survey exhibition of sculptural works by Tatyana Murray expanding on her body of work created over the last twenty years. British artist Tatyana Murray has been based in New York since the mid-1990s. Largely self-taught artist, Tatyana found personal meaning in sculptures through the abstractions of nature and the cosmos. While her approach to the medium is poetic, she uses tools and materials that convey intense hard work. She stitches, pins, drills, hits, weaves, cuts and scratches to create illusions of depth and layering, bringing light into her entire body of work. Finding beauty between chaos and softness, her sculptural works bring textures and movement in a refined balance.