Saya Woolfalk presents new commission at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

APR 5—JUN 11, 2022

Saya Woolfalk

VISUAL ART

FLOATING WORLD OF THE CLOUD QUILT

SOUNDSCAPE ANTHELION BY DIM GUREVICH
ASSISTANT CREATIVE DIRECTION BY ISABEL SAKURA
CURATED BY LARRY OSSEI-MENSAH, BAM GUEST CURATOR-AT-LARGE

Part of Spring 2022

“WOOLFALK HARNESSES INSTALLATION, VIDEO PROJECTIONS, AND SCI-FI INTO A GORGEOUS, OTHERWORLDLY PRESENTATION THAT SUGGESTS THE FLUX AND HYBRIDITY OF CONTEMPORARY IDENTITIES.”
—ARTSY
“Floating World of the Cloud Quilt” is a monumental digital projection installation by multidisciplinary, multi-hyphenate artist Saya Woolfalk. This work quilts together 15 years of archival material from Woolfalk’s Empathic Universe, an array of visionary spaces where a fictional race of women can alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants.

By connecting analog drawings, paintings, and photographs with digital elements in this universe, Woolfalk creates an embodied, unified space. This installation is a liminal collage of a digital sky incorporating images of medicinal plants, along with those from astrology, mandalas, and variations on sacred vessels and artifacts from around the world—Woolfalk shares these insights:

With this work, I want to immerse everyone in the archive of the Empathic Universe in the form of what I call “The Cloud Quilt.” Quilts often take the well-worn pieces of our everyday lives and combine them to create something new. When the elements are combined, the quilt retains all of the traces of history while becoming an object used in service to something else. A quilt is an object of comfort, warmth, and protection, and it is also a space for dreaming. With this work, I took a number of historical elements from the Empathic Universe, and quilted them together so the audience can experience what it feels like to be immersed in that world.
VENUE

BAM Strong
The Rudin Family Gallery

Apr 5—Jun 11
Wed—Sat, 1—6pm

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