Vanessa Fanuele and Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo
From 04/06/2010 to 26/06/2010
Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo’s first exhibition at Kuma Galerie is comprised of 100 explicit collage works in the project “100% Napalm” a body of 100 collages that critique the media as an over-bearing force that propagates Utopian ideals. Other works include drawing and photomontages that dissect and criticize popular culture and the influence it has in our modern day life. The work investigates the perverse effect of the media and criticizes social taboos that often operate as forms of censorship. In an increasingly media saturated society the exhibition addresses the concern of how much information is actually made available and how has society's moral ideals shifted to adapt to Popular interest or to that of a Hollywood archetype? Vanessa Fanuele’s drawings and installations, also shown for the first time at Kuma Galerie, plunge the viewer into a world dominated by strange hybrid beings, aquatic animals, and human organs. The use of transparency in Fanuele’s work enables us to see beyond the surface of the skin, and to observe the world from within. Whether we are looking at cells or the cosmos, it is difficult to tell.