Yacine Fall: Overtones + Overturns | Installation + Durational Performance
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Fridman Gallery is honored to announce Overtones + Overturns by Yacine Fall. A site-specific performance and meditation on failure, Overtones + Overturns focuses on the birthplace of a resonant object—the stage hook of the Miner's Bowery Theater, which was located next door to the gallery at the turn of the 20th century. "Getting the hook" referred to the practice of unpopular performers being yanked off stage by a long-poled hook so the next act could go on.
Overtones + Overturns uses a cyclical logic to bypass the binaries and prejudice required for industrial "progress" held within the hook as a social and political tool. Turning is a force and gesture of reclamation, a precondition of the natal edge, and a narrator of historic shifts in time. To engage with the lineage or overtones of performative predecessors, this durational work renders the space as one large score of the internal pulses of multiple performers at once: a chorus of the impossibility of touch points.
Performers: Yacine Fall, Marcelline Mandeng Nken, Creighton Baxter.
Co-presented by New Ear Inc.
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Yacine Fall is an interdisciplinary performance artist and sculptor. Fall has exhibited works in venues such as Essex Gallery NY, African Center, and Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art. Through repetition, ritual, history, and intimacy with and of materials, labor is equally physical and conceptual. Her Senegalese/Mauritanian roots guide her interest in challenging and or reinforcing the concept of function through ritual practices, while investigating the tapestry of black womanhood, the diaspora and its ties to the global community and the natural environment.
