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Rose Liu

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#ArtSpeaks: Rose Liu on Joan Jonas

“That’s how our brains function. We think of several things at the same time….In a way, her work represents that way of seeing the world.“ –Intern Rose Liu shares the work that made her fall in love with video art. … #ArtSpeaks is a day of community and conversation led by Museum staff on the last Tuesday of every month. Watch Rose’s full gallery talk on Joan Jonas’s “Reanimation” (2010/2012/2013) on our Facebook page at mo.ma/2OFIEpr

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Studio Visit: Firelei Báez

“…how do you make someone present when history has made such an effort to erase them?… I want there to be room for the viewer to recreate her in the present along with me. That’s why the only fixed point in each portrait is their direct gaze, connecting them to the viewer.”

Artist Firelei Báez’s work “For Améthyste and Athénaire (Exiled Muses Beyond Jean Luc Nancy’s Canon), Anaconas” is our newest Modern Window installation, located at the Museum’s 53rd Street entrance. Read more about her work to reclaim the stories of marginalized Afro-Latina and Afro-Caribbean women. … Photo: Rose Liu

In many ways, we are captives in our own minds. My ongoing series is about the day-to-day claustrophobic environment that forms mental and physical walls we create for ourselves. These walls impose limits on our thinking, stifling our behavior and creativity, and constraining our sense of self and perception of reality. My work explores the notions of confinement, regimentation, and repression through visual imagery. By making this body of work, I confront the desire to live up to social expectations that entrap many of us, thereby examining how we can break down the walls in which we imprison ourselves. I am drawn to the lines, shapes, and forms of architecture, and how they echo the uniform and regimented structure of the conditions for thinking. By using architecture as a metaphor, deconstructing its structural elements, and layering them, I enhance the effect of the repressive and claustrophobic atmosphere. In short, architecture metaphorically suggests my attempt at controlling chaos in a controlled space(s). Balancing on the edge of the real and the unreal, making new structures out of already-existing vernacular and stagnant buildings, and employing radical framing, I build an imagined reality. These images communicate the mental experience of the void, withdrawal, and suffocation.