Dimensions Variable presents Sounds Like, a group exhibition including the work of Mike Calway-Fagen, Nicholas des Cognets, Janelle Iglesias and Tom Scicluna. There is value in not knowing, in being unsure. When you can’t name something, can you still know what it looks like, what it smells like, feels like, sounds like?
With this question in mind the exhibition’s four artists deploy objects, videos, and discrete noises that act as mediums of experience outside the structure of language but beyond the bounds of the merely visual. Their varied interests lie not in things that have soundtracks; that work as an accompaniment to a purely visual experience, but situations where sound is integral to the structure and composition of the piece. These things could not exist without sound and can’t help but make some auditory discharge. The sound element of this work resists quick categorization and allows things to remain mysterious a few moments longer.
There is value in not knowing and it’s ok to not be certain just what that value is.
Nicholas des Cognets was raised in western Massachusetts. He earned a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2001 and holds an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. Mike Calway-Fagen is an artist, writer, and curator based in Bloomington, Indiana where he is Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University. He received his BFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and an MFA from the University of California in San Diego. Janelle Iglesias (b. 1980, Queens, NYC) lives and works in many places but calls NYC home. Invested in the metaphors found in objects/materials and their physical language in space, she uses Sculpture to access other ways of knowing and explore interconnectedness. Tom Scicluna lives and works in Miami, Florida and he is a South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists recipient.
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