Featured on the cover and examined in the last chapter, Pinder’s work plays an important role in this thoughtful and groundbreaking academic text.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
—Carl Sagan
Cosmosis is an exhibition that investigates how the cosmos and the scientific fields of physics and cosmology continue to inspire artistic production, exerting great influence on our understanding of the universe—and our place therein. After all, scientific developments and breakthroughs inevitably have great cultural relevance and ramifications, often contributing to our sense of identity and role both as individuals and collectively within society. As is often the case: to look outward and beyond is also to look inward.
This exhibition brings together a group of artists whose interest in the cultural significance of the cosmos leads in multiple directions, intersecting with the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, philosophy, and so on, grounded in different art-making strategies and material explorations.
Review by Blake Gopnik
March 30th, 2015
Figgeo Contemporary: Pinder
March 28th – June 28th, 2015
The Figgeo Video & Film series returns this spring with Figgeo Contemporary: Pinder featuring five recent works by Chicago and Washington, DC, artist Jefferson Pinder. Pinder explores themes of black identity, social struggle and the human condition through an interdisciplinary mix of music video and physical theater. Both familiar and unexpected, Pinder’s striking compositions actively engage the viewer with the directness of the actors’ gazes, hypnotic beats and, at times, intense physical movement.
VOLTA NY
Pier 90, Booth A-11
March 5-8, 2015
West 50th Street and 12th Avenue
New York, NY 10036