For one more week ARC Gallery will be featuring the work of conceptual artist and ARC member, Cheri Reif Naselli. Her multi-media installation, Exhale, ripples over the wall like a chrysalis unfurling. The piece is an animated diary imbued with layers of subtext and associations. Snaking through the space like a shed skin, it is a relic of her experiences.
Reif Naselli stretched and combined roughly 200 feet of hog casing into one continuous ribbon. The material reflects the interiority of the piece -- literally a kind of spilling of the guts. The delicate membrane was brushed with a fixative, giving it the brittle texture of parchment. Upon this “parchment” is an abstract account of the many moments that make up a life. By using an ink-blowing technique (hence the title), Reif Naselli created calligraphic explosions and Rorschach-like blots -- evocative of firing synapses -- that pulsate with intermittent color. As it scurries across the expanse of the room, it juts upwards, tumbles down the wall and folds in on itself before gathering into loose coils in the corner -- waiting to be unraveled.
Experience Exhale in the flesh until September 25th.
By Rachel Brown
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