In her solo exhibition titled "If a 🌳 falls..." American conceptual artist Susan Scafati explores existence and perception in the age of smartphones, inviting us to think about how representation of one’s self and one’s world is expressed within our visual, virtual culture today. The core of the exhibit features pigment prints titled t e x t s c a p e, inspired by the smartphone speech bubble as an everyday icon that comprises our psychological landscape and influences human behavior. Scafati repeatedly layers hand-drawn, hand-cut and projected textboxes made using sunprint, photogram and digital processes, creating multiple form and color iterations and enlarging them beyond smartphone size to up to several feet. Site-specific acrylic installations of the same textbox motif present filtered worlds in flux; their transparent, opaque and mirrored surfaces reference lighting gels, camera filters and stage productions.
Scafati will also show Tablet-sized silver gelatin and pigment prints that intentionally work against smartphone camera defaults. Reclaiming free-form creativity and play, Scafati shoots these artworks while manually obscuring the lens with handheld filters and other (non- Photoshop) interventions. These works depart from the textbox icon characterizing the t e x t s c a p e artworks, exploring the relationship between digital filters and human perception. All works are titled in emojis.
Regular gallery hours are 8 am to 5 pm, weekdays.
The Bonsack Gallery
John Burroughs School
755 South Price Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63124
314-993-4040
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