Exhibition Information

Jeremy Santiago-Horseman: GOLEM PROCESSES
October 24-December 16, 2016

“The recollection of a person or a story is realized through a collision of spaces and objects that we assign to meaning. Golem Processes is an ongoing series of portrait paintings and objects that allude to the act of raising a golem—a clay humanoid in Jewish folklore that is brought to life through magical-mystical means. Blending traditional portraiture with the symbolic use of clay, Golem Processes is an assemblage of ancestors and deceased loved ones. The portraits embrace a space between material and narrative, where the desire to bring life to a body, to conjure the memory of a person, is entangled with images, inscriptions and elemental substances.”

As an installation artist, I am interested in how relationships between the corporeal and time and space have generated an immeasurable narrative sphere. My work reinterprets a spectrum of folkloric imagery through a more contemporary technological lens, layering the intimate, emotional, even spiritual aspects of folklore with the seemingly banal and emotionless aspects of technology. In my process, fractured narratives emerge from paintings, spatial and material constructions, and the elements of mud, color, light, code and often sound. By combining the surreal, uncanny storytelling of folklore with an undertow of technological processes, I question if the human mind and body are malleable forms, tempered by the narrative spaces which surround us.”

 

 Jeremy Santiago-Horseman is a Philadelphia-based artist working in both visual and sonic practices. He received his M.F.A degree from Syracuse University, and his work has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore, and Syracuse and was also recently included in the 5th International Moscow Biennale for Young Art.

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