3/29

Georgia Sagri at the Whitney Biennial

interesting things in this piece
but for the most part
i found the biennial to be disorienting, hopeless & without humor

many nostalgic glances at a pre-virtual era:
tv w/rabbit ears,
portable phonographs
and other cliches of times gone by

and definitely illusions to the pixelated world we now inhabit
but no vision as to where it might lead
unless you count
worship of consumerism
gross appropriation
and much navel gazing

all to the soundtrack of eerie musical motifs
that give the whole thing
a tim burtonesque aura

definitely a reason to go back to
simple
unironic
soulful
paint

cutting edge
(if that is what that's supposed to be)
for cutting edge's sake
is not art
(imho)

now,
i'll read the reviews and see how "wrong"
and "old fashioned" i really am

btw
this was by far
the best work in the show
tho not quite sure how it fit in to the biennial concept...

and this work was haunting, the left frame in the animus snap to the right is from tom thayer's piece)