Twin Flames: Instant Duality

 

Twin Flames: Instant Duality

August 20th - August 25th

The Storefront Project

70 Orchard St, New York City

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Exhibition Installation at The Storefront Project 

Main Hall Part 1 of The Storefront Project.

Bahareh & Farzaneh Safarani44 in. x 44 in. - Black Frame

Bahareh & Farzaneh Safarani

44 in. x 44 in. - Black Frame

Main Hall Part 2 of The Storefront Project.

Street Art Installation on Orchard St.

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How does photography become tangible? A photograph is a time capsule composed with photon light energies, which is framed and created to be shared amongst humanity. Tangibility is the truth of materiality; and a Polaroid is the most honest form of photography.

Understanding analog is to respect the obsolete nature of technology and learning to create new forms from which consumerism has already made. Moving forward, humans are focusing on creating technology without any waste by recognizing our earthly responsibilities of what we create. By acknowledging civilization 100 years ahead of what technology we are using now. What is necessary? and what is instrumental to our survival and evolution?

For example: Polaroids and VHS were once utilized heavily in the 80's and 90's, where as now these tools are appreciated as an objectified art form in the post-modern state of existence. As the timeline of technology funnels on, these analog tools become an object of novelty and nostalgia. Tangibility and nostalgia are human emotive signifiers for the reach towards primordial forms in the futuristic age of Instagram.

Twin Flames: Enter-Mission

 

Twin Flames: Enter-Mission

July 11th - July 18th

Lazy Susan Gallery

191 Henry St, New York City


Exhibition Installation at Lazy Susan Gallery

Main Hall of Lazy Susan Gallery

Back Room of Lazy Susan Gallery

Low Fi Mixed-Media Art on Cardboard and VHS Tape.


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For Twin Flames: Enter-Mission, artist Justin Aversano is taking on Lazy Susan Gallery as a collaborative Low-Fi/Hi-Brow street art & gallery experience curated by Robert Fernandez (AKA) Nova The Wraith. To unfold the dualities of public and private spaces, which transcends the perspective of Twindom for the expansion of the Twin Flames Saga.

Outside of Lazy Susan Gallery - Mural by Brandon Sines (Frank Ape)


Twin Flames

 
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Twin Flames

May 18th - May 31st, 2019

Superchief Gallery NY

1628 Jefferson Avenue, Queens.

Installation photographs of framed works exhibited in Twin Flames

Main Hall Part 1 of Superchief Gallery NY.

Main Hall Part 2 of Superchief Gallery NY.

Main Hall Part 2 of Superchief Gallery NY.

Enlarged pieces on the Center Wall Part 1 of Superchief Gallery NY.

Enlarged pieces on the Center Wall Part 2 of Superchief Gallery NY.

Polaroid Collection on the Center Wall of Superchief Gallery NY.

C-print Collection and Book Installation on the Back Wall of Superchief Gallery NY.

Wide view of C-print Collection and Book Installation on the Back Wall of Superchief Gallery NY.

Wide view of C-print Collection and Book Installation on the Back Wall of Superchief Gallery NY.

Full House at the Opening Reception.


For “Twin Flames” I photographed 100 sets of twins, aiming to create body of work focused on the existence of multiple births and the phenomena of twindom through an immersive portrait survey. Twins and multiple siblings provide a lens on the magic and causality of biology. In our everyday society, twins, triplets et al. have an assigned position within all current and historical cultures—a shared tulpa of genetics, fate and timing. Twindom has a deep root in shared storytelling, its visuals conjure metatextual manifestations across the astrological, the mythological, the academic and the popular, stringing together tangents of the everyday and simultaneously karmic. By using three formats of film Polaroid, 120mm, and 4x5 by focusing on the simple idea of seeking an “intentional phenomenology” by direct image making, I can facilitate a broad and reflexive photographic engagement that is about these unique individuals and their presence in our collective nature.