FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 01, 2005

Goliath Visual Space presents decompose, a two-person exhibition of video work by Karla Carballar and Madeleine Gallagher. The exhibition will run from Friday, April 15th to Sunday, May 8th, with an opening reception to be held on Friday, April 15th from 7 to 9 pm. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12 to 6 pm, and weekdays by appointment.

In the single channel video projection 2.30, Karla Carballar captures the shadows of her blinking eyelashes projected onto her bedroom wall. Isolated from the rest of the face and reduced to shadows, the movement of her lashes become displaced and alien. “I feel as if the parts of my body are removable… when my eyes are half closed and I see my eyelashes beating, I contemplate their almost grotesque performance, from inside.”

On the night of August 14th, 2003, during the North East blackout, Karla Carballar recorded the only light visible, that of a single patrol car parked on the street. For one minute and 13 seconds the stroboscopic light pierced the darkness that blanketed the city, and then disappeared into the pitch-black night. On the surface 8-14/03 is a hypnotic abstraction of pure light. But it also exists as a document of the unreal moment when New York’s lights went out and the population of the usually bright city was left to speculate if this was the result of mechanical failure or terrorist attack.

In Glo and Flo Madeleine Gallagher presents a series of sculptural interventions that filter television transmissions into small visual pleasures free from propaganda. Using a system of décollage, Gallagher embeds Plexiglas rods through a wall in a series of patterns, modifying the broadcasts of major networks into pure color, enabling a formal visual analysis of the plastic qualities of media. The blast of information that is constantly coloring the way we perceive control space, often in a paranoid semi-hypnotized state, drained of energy and intuition, is transformed into a sublime installation of pure color, randomized by the networks.

Madeleine Gallagher collaborated with sound artist Ian Nagoski to create Shell Home Elk Bee, a single channel video installation featuring a 24 hour video recording of the subtle light changes and bend in the horizon of the landscape of the bay side view from Truro Massachusetts. The light recorded from the rapidly changing weather patterns is presented with 5.1 surround sound of Nagoski’s drones, created with audio frequency wave patterns and digital feedback