Amelia Farley

Amelia Farley is a contributor to the Rail.
Illustrated with cartoonish hyperbole, Verses from the Apocalypse resembles the out-of-order panels of a dark, smutty comic book: spotlit vignettes of women bondaged by construction materials, restrained by scaffolds, fettered to medieval torture devices, and occasionally nose-deep in books, as if language itself were a form of punishment.
Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Working of Pathos, 2019. Graphite, charcoal, pastel, and ink on paper with hair paper backing and Plexiglass framing, 12 x 9 inches. © Cindy Ji Hye Kim. Courtesy Helena Anrather and Foxy Production, New York.
Like the condition to which it refers, the exhibition brain damage does not just invoke a locus of injury, but also the diffusion of its effects.
Installation view: Olga Balema: brain damage, Bridget Donahue, New York, 2019. Courtesy Bridget Donahue.

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