Marina Yacoe: Ease in the Uncertainty features recent video work and photographs from a series that brings together found footage and sound to create vibrant compilations that present new layers of meaning. Since living in Maine, Yacoe has recently focused her film-making practice to crafting short poetic  film pieces that she creates from what she calls ‘space junk’ or the flotsam of lost and broken visual and audio content that exists in virtual piles of cheap data banks. Yacoe selects, refines and attaches pieces of movement and light; sound and faces together in these video works.

Viewed through stereoscope viewers, the collections of short abstract films provide an intimate space for one’s own reflection on time and place. The photographs are printed on aluminum prints that emphasize the still moments that she captures from the films. The custom birch wood ‘viewer-booths’ house each looped film and offer an up-close experience  of the work’s vibrant rhythmic and emotional subtlety. Yacoe also presents her films in handheld viewers as another motion towards more intentional viewing and an invitation to feast at her table. The films only exist where they are viewed as Yacoe’s work is not publicly available online.

Yacoe’s film work is about horizons and boundaries. Growing up with inspired visual artist parents, and yet trying to reconcile imposed labels like ‘bi-racial’ and ‘mixed’, planted this fractured lens in her creative mind. She is dedicated to juxtapositions that create wholeness in their  beauty and contrasts; to things that are better together. She faces the in between spaces and pulls  them into graceful collision. Her work brings to our attention what we may have missed on the  edges and in the friction: like a subway ride under her native Manhattan. Yacoe’s work invites us to consider the questions at hand in our visual sphere: the plethora of content on demand and soon discarded; image scraps for sale of people and moments; constant screen content available in public  spaces…mostly unnoticed.