Greta Bank: DEEP FAKE
MARCH 24 - MAY 13
Image: Scott Peterman
Image: Scott Peterman
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
DEEP FAKE is an immersive installation inspired by what was a Super Volcano over 400 million years ago. By embracing the destructive power and transformation of change, as studied in geologic time, the volcano is a portal for grief and reconciliation as seen through mass extinction. This project spirals around the experience of perception, by contemplating human scale and the evanescence of human exceptionalism. DEEP FAKE is a shroud of distraction and the denial of our planet Earth.
In partnership with DEEP FAKE is Eli Nixon’s Blood Tide Holiday proposal, pieces of which are on view in our rear gallery. Bloodtide attempts queer futurity, without mythologies of settler innocence, and with sustained recognition that time extends through our ancestors: recent ones, bog bodies, slithering fern dwellers and primordial beasts with telsons ruddering behind. It’s a holiday marking our relation to place and thus the necessity of making reparations and contributing to land return projects.
ABOUT GRETA BANK
Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Greta Bank currently resides in Hollis, Maine. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a MFA focused on painting from the University of Arizona. Her sculptural work, performance, installations and multi media, often use both topical and historical content to provoke social inquiry. Bank describes her work as visual essays, positioning her audience to reflect on diverse matters such as environmental corruption, mass consumption and social constructs. She has exhibited at SPACE Gallery, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and most recently the Hunterdon Museum. Bank has received multiple grants from the Maine Arts Commission, as well as from the Taconic Community Foundation and an Emerging Artist Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
ABOUT ELI NIXON
Eli Nixon builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist, or already exist but call for imaginative intervention and DIY translation.
They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of plays, puppets, parades, pageants, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public spectaculah. Eli collaborates with artists, activists, and the more-than-human world to create performances, installations, and civic choreography on street corners and stages.
Eli is in the midst of proposing a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs, encouraging everyone to check for ticks, and supporting local and planetary movements for abolition, reparations, land return, and multispecies justice. They believe in the transformative power of snacks, tide pools, costumes, friendship and “free time.”
Support for DEEP FAKE is provided by The Horizon Foundation and The American Rescue Plan Maine Project Grant, a subgranting program administered by SPACE Gallery for the National Endowment for the Arts.
