1275 Minnesota St /
Casemore Gallery
Automata Sigils: Billie Ocean, Kelley O'Leary, Sonya Rapoport, Ariella Robinson, Mia Weiner, and Carmen Winant
Co-curated by Janie Perez-Radler
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 5–8 pm, curatorial walkthrough at 4:30 pm
On View Through August 29 (with a brief pause during the week of July 21)
"Then she got into the Iift…and was shot smoothly upwards. The very fabric of life now, she thought as she rose, is magic.” — Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928)
Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Automata Sigils, opening June 27, 5-8 pm. This exhibition assembles six women artists whose work engages technological systems, coded structures, and historical apparatuses to offer conceptual perspectives on craft and design.
The title of the exhibition is taken from two seemingly opposed ideas: the automaton and the sigil. One suggests programmed action, mechanical repetition, and systems of control; the other invokes symbols, rituals, and the production of meaning through belief. Moving between these poles, the artists in Automata Sigils creatively repurpose historical and present day technologies and materials such as a Jacquard loom, steel mobiles, 1970s computer paper, ulexite crystal, archival photography, and digital video manipulation to transform these tools into sites of speculation and enchantment.