Art Faculty Paulina Velázquez Solís presents work at Everson Museum in Syracuse

By David Salomon, July 19, 2024

Art Faculty Paulina Velázquez Solís presents work at Everson Museum in Syracuse

Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the exhibition Unseen/forgotten: An ode to the humble landscape | Invisible/olvidado: Oda al paisaje humilde from July 18 to September 28 at its architectural projection venue on the Everson Museum facade, Thursday-Saturday from dusk until 11:00pm.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist and Ithaca College Art Faculty Paulina Velázquez Solís will be present for a live performance on the Everson Plaza on July 26 at 8:30 p.m. This program follows the reception of Light Work’s Summer Exhibitions at 316 Waverly Avenue, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m

Unseen/forgotten: An ode to the humble landscape | Invisible/olvidado: Oda al paisaje humilde is the continuation of a project Paulina Velázquez Solís developed during the pandemic. She found herself in a new environment in Brooktondale, New York, surrounded by a creek where the change of pace and isolation brought via COVID accentuated the sound perception of the river, and its presence as a neighbor and living entity. This sonic connection was similar to her home in Costa Rica, which is also next to a river, making the sound and the experience of the river both grounding and nostalgic. This project, which includes interactive and performance-based elements, explores Central New York as a site of “post-industrial natural wonder,” using regionally extinct species in local herbaria as tools to meditate on “the tension between what prevails and what has shifted or disappeared” in a field of “memory, transformation, and territory.”

Artist Website: multifungi.com

Image of art work, Unseen/forgotten: An Ode to the Humble Landscape, projected onto Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY

Paulina Velázquez Solís: Unseen/forgotten: An Ode to the Humble Landscape

Paulina Velázquez Solís: Unseen/forgotten: An Ode to the Humble Landscape