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Vernissage:
01. November
18-22h

SAM HEYDT: The View is fine

Vernissage am 01. November | 18-22h

Transformation der globalen Landschaft unter der Last der Industrialisierung ist das zentrale Thema ihrer Arbeit. In THE VIEW IS FINE kommuniziert Sam Heydt dies mit unterschiedlichen Medien: Collagen, Objekte und Fotografien thematisieren Konsumverhalten und materielle Ungleichheit, menschliche Selbstgefälligkeit und den Einfluss der Medien in einer Welt, die auf reine Profitorientierung reduziert wird.

Heydt präsentiert eine überzeugende visuelle Aussage, die sich von der alarmistischen Herangehensweise ihrer vorherigen Serie abwendet. Vielmehr unterwirft sich dieses Werk den zugrunde liegenden Unsicherheiten und Unvermeidlichkeiten unserer Zeit und wirft bei der Ermittlung und Vorstellung von Folgen eine größere Frage auf, nämlich die einer weiteren Auferstehung.

SAMANTHA HEYDT 1986 in New York geboren. Studium an der Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union Universidad de Buenos Aires, Amsterdam und La Sorbonne Paris. Artist Residencies in Island, Australien und Neuseeland. Altruistic, non-profit work u.a. in Rajasthan, Indien. Ausstellungen in Newport Art Museum, State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Krasnoyarsk Museum, Museum of Novosibirsk, LACDA, Los Angeles. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Miami und Wien.

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Artist Statement

The edge is closer than we think. Illusion won’t free us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids become history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate inequality.  As the natural world is liquidated and substituted with an artificial one, public discourse is being defined by even narrower bandwidths mediating by corportions.  While the social processes of global capitalism defy collectivism, the underbelly of profitability fueling globalization is increasingly hinged on exploitation.

Our time is marked by mass extinction, product fetishism, diminishing resources, soaring carbon emissions, patented seeds and dying oceans. Earth has entered a new geologic era brought on by hyper-industrialization.  The skeletons of old factories serve as caveats for a world exploited beyond use, a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line.  History has failed us and the future isn't what it used to be.  Yet, these potents are drowned out by the white noise of the media and the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates.     

Employing a complex narrative assemblage of movie imagery, war photography and vintage advertisement, this exhibition takes the self-deception of the post-war American middle class – i.e., the narrative created by tabloids, television, and cinema – as a leading motive, and sidesteps into iconographically related themes.  Through adding and subtracting meaning by combining images of destruction with portrayals of the virtues born from the American Dream, I confront the disillusionment of our time with the ecological and existential nightmare it is responsible for.  

Working across different media- film, video, installation, photography, sculpture, sound and text, my works present an abstract proposition for a world on the periphery of history, one that not only appears haunted by the ghosts of the past, but built on it.  The layered imagery conflates time and place, colliding and merging generations of possibilities, and disrupting logical relationships between occurrences.  

Unable to live within the natural world, mankind’s transformation of the global landscape and precarious relationship with nature is central to these works. How much longer are we willing to prostitute our planet in the name of progress?

Sam Heydt, October 2019