INTERFACE
MARCH 30 –
APRIL 30, 2018
The Fritz Gallery is pleased to
present INTERFACE, a solo exhibition
by emerging artist Amber Tutwiler. Tutwiler is an interdisciplinary artist who
works across oil painting, sculpture/installation, audio, and video. Her work
is a meditation on interface; specifically, it is concerned with the interface
between our physical, corporeal world and the heterotopic spaces arising from
the world – what Foucault described as “placeless places” in his essay, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias(1984). These places are so assimilated that our bodies have become symbiotic
with them, becoming invisibly dependent on visibility.
Tutwiler asks how the body becomes integrated
into this voyeuristic digital melting pot, oriented as landscapes that are not
concise in their place, time, or consent. Though the viewer is inclined to
believe there is something real about
what is seen (at least at some point), the method to which this information is
delivered is very un-real. Translucent color, warped planes, optical portages,
and fringe interference patterns intersect the body; consequentially, there is
a tension between what feels like a moment of intimacy between the viewer and
the subject, and the reality of the subject’s digital infidelity. This transaction
moves as quickly forward as it does away, revealing nothing but an interface: a
surface which mediates multiple points of contact. Ultimately, Tutwiler’s work
traps this transaction, bringing body, space, time into suspension.
