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DESCRIPTION:In moments of upheaval, the ghosts of images from the past take on new 
 relevance. Histories repeat themselves but in distorted form, refracted by 
 the breaks between eras, the breaks between eras, the differences between 
 their media, and their distinct understandings of the world. \n\nDarrin 
 Martin’s exhibition of remixed archival video and sculptural works, 
 Stacked Artifacts explores these dynamics with particular attention to 
 queer histories - both personal and collective - reflecting on the past in 
 light of the promise and perils of the present, grappling with loss and 
 change, and struggling to situate these histories within the broader 
 assemblage of reality.\n\nWorks in the show are threaded together, 
 formally, by their common engagement with the degradation of the moving 
 image, hinging on the paradox in media and its artifacts, i.e., that their 
 obsolescence and failure to remain faithful to the past simultaneously 
 opens them up to unexpected combinations and novel interpretations, 
 contributing to the realization of unanticipated futures.\nIn a large, 
 two-channel video projection, spanning the gallery’s walls, Darrin 
 collages together processed and damaged home movies, vintage gay porn, 
 documentary agricultural videos, and a Cold War fiction film about the end 
 of the world. Another piece presents a floral arrangement living and dying 
 in a seamless loop, interrupted only by taffy-like jumps in time that 
 stagger the changes in the flowers’ vitality and decay.  A third piece 
 features a thin, door-like relief with carved geometric patterns, extending 
 onto the floor in segments mounted with video screens.\n\nWhether in 
 three-dimensional objects or as moving-images that wrap the gallery’s 
 architecture, Darrin presents media and memory not merely as cognitive 
 instruments, but as integral to the fabric of lived experience. His works 
 are psychological interiorities, comprised of layered, shifting images and 
 associations. They are bodies marked by age and experience, preserving 
 traces of the past in the texture of their flesh. Rich with meaning and 
 memory, they are rooms and social contexts, layered across time, marked by 
 loss, and open to rediscovery.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/17/18880739.php
SUMMARY:Stacked Artifacts
LOCATION:Telematic Media Arts\n 323 10th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/17/18880739.php
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