Laminated Earth

 

SOLO SHOW ZAZ10TS GALLERY

Feb 10 - April 25, 2022

10 TIMES SQUARE

1441 Broadway, New York, NY 10018

 

Spanning across several disciplines,  Laminated Earth  is a site-specific, multimedia installation that reconciles architectural representations of housing while drawing from and art practices of raw soils and synthetic matter. Created by artist and architect Sharon Yavo-Ayalon and curated by Professor Lola Ben-Alon,  Laminated Earth transforms the confined lobby of 10 Times Square into a shimmering, golden dream. The exhibition extends to the ZAZ Corner billboard on 41st and 7th with video art, taken from a performance of the artist who builds, destroys, and then rebuilds her own nylon home, inhibited by madness and the promise of immigration to a better land. A challenging juxtaposition of art and advertising are accompanied by architectural symbols to create a new paragon of public art. The exhibition, comprised of a series of site-specific installations and a video art performance, mediates between the personal and collective homes while engaging in the obsessive preservation of raw soils as an increasingly eliminated resource. Entering the exhibition, the viewer realizes that not all that glitters is gold but is rather a muddy, dirt matter on plain nylon.  Laminated Earth is both the action and the outcome, the process and the object, where the viewers are invited to explore Yavo Ayalon’s multidisciplinary contemporary art practice and her unique perspective on land art, performance art, and architecture.