End of Spring Screening at Triangle

Triangle is excited to announce:

 End of Spring Screening at Triangle

Tuesday May 30th, 6:30 pm
20 Jay st, suite 317
Brooklyn, NY, 11201

A screening of selected video works by current Triangle residents Poyen Wang and Nancy Valladares. The evening will be followed by reception with snacks and a conversation with the artists and Triangle Director Nova Benway.

Nancy Dayanne Valladares (She / They) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and educator from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Nancy's practice delves into the histories of image-making, through the lens of botany, ecology, and more-than-human worlds. Nancy is interested in technologies of vision and the way these are scripting the future of images. Their practice examines photography’s historical entanglement with botanical imaginaries and chemical legacies.

Shot with an electronic microscope, The Density of Breath is a meditation on vegetal agency, plant exchanges and botanical representation. Millions of years after seeds learned to move in the currents of the ocean and the wind, to float on water and air, to become the first stowaways and hitchhikers, human colonial networks of exchange were strengthened as maritime travel developed. In pursuit of plant matter and the expansion of the human visual apparatus, technologies of plant transportation and representation marked a pivotal ecological and cognitive shift in various geographies around the globe. Self-titled naturalists and explorers like Alexander Von Humboldt became the de-facto authors of western botanical history, while botanists like Joseph A. Banks reshaped the biomes of the Caribbean. And yet, we know that history can be traced through other paths, agencies and lenses. What do seeds know about the flavor of the atmosphere; about the texture of the air and its currents, about its ebbs and flows?

Poyen Wang is an artist and filmmaker, born and raised in Taiwan and currently based in New York City. His recent practice employs world-building through 3D computer graphics to grapple with issues of identity, sexuality and masculinity through a psychological lens. He has had solo exhibitions at Essex Flowers, New York; Taipei Digital Art Center, Taiwan; 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles; Flux Factory, New York; and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Melancholy atmosphere permeates a series of dreamlike vignettes in ‘Recess’, depicting a boy-man character sitting alone in a timeless, cave-like classroom. The wind blows the curtains; ceiling fans operate endlessly; clouds slowly pass through the blue sky; a group of butterflies subtly flap their wings on a bulletin board. A ray of sun breaks the darkness of the room through the window, almost like a rope, illuminating the statue-like figure.

Mundane words of self-introduction, sensual but eerie bodily gestures, and dramatic sound effects feature in Endearing Insanity, reflecting on the longing for connection and the desire for visibility within a displaced environment. Staged within a small apartment kitchen, the seemingly ragged protagonist, constrained in various enclosed spaces such as a cabinet, microwave, and sink, performs a monologue waiting for someone to visit.