12.08.2018 | 02.17.2019 
RUFFLED FOLLICLES AND A TANGLED TONGUE | JENNIFER ROSE SCIARRINO

Ruffled Follicles and a Tangled Tongue is a solo exhibition by Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, featuring new sculptural installation and video works, with the artist thinking through language and gesture to a microscopic level. The installation is comprised of blown glass and carved stone bearing the resemblance of microscopic cells of seeds, spores and bacteria on a magnified scale. The sculptures are held in precarious positions by their steel armatures, a likeness to the gestures of taking and receiving of such cellular information. An alabaster dandelion seed resembling a tongue, reaches towards a split glass archaea that may remind us of a kidney. Aspects of life are enlarged and entangled, creating likely or uncommon relationships in the complex systems of worlding.

In the video work nearby, a strange trilogue can be heard in a conversation through prose, between three women discussing aspects of science fiction, feminism, entanglement, and the Anthropocene as they speculate new ways of understanding and communicating with each other and the world around them. The words are spoken into glass vessels that collect the accrued fluid from their lungs and mouth.

The fluid becomes a focus of the video as it is captured through lenses of microscopy: the fluid moves from an ecosystem in itself to encompass the intention of their shared communication. 

Ruffled Follicles and A Tangled Tongue, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery.

Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, Ruffled Follicles and A Tangled Tongue, HD video, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery.

Documentation photography courtesy of Jaime Vedres, 2018.