Caitlin Servilio
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Zone Era - 1
2023
Cyanotype, gouache, paper, foam core, full-color 16-page zine, video, audio, furniture, transistor radio, felt
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Zone Era - Desk 1
2023
Cyanotype, gouache, paper, foam core, full-color 16-page zine, video, audio, furniture, transistor radio, felt
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Zone Era - Desk 2
2023
Cyanotype, gouache, paper, foam core, full-color 16-page zine, video, audio, furniture, transistor radio, felt
Statement
Zone Era encompasses cyanotype, painting, and bookmaking to explore an ambiguous landscape that evokes an asteroid belt or the aftermath of an explosion. In a dreamlike, blue-tinted world of low gravity, strangely vibrant vestiges of a previous society can be found clinging to floating rocks. The viewer is invited to explore disjointed vignettes like a detective examining a crime scene, putting together clues in different ways to play out sequences of events that may have led to the apocalyptic event; however, a variety of readings of the imagery are possible. A zine serves as a companion to the installation. The zine is designed to allow interaction with the zone via word games, crafts, and stories. Stylistically, the zine references children’s activity books, religious handouts, and epistolary novels.
The zone purposely confuses “outer space” and “inner space,” flatness and depth, creatures and objects, in order to ask questions like, what went wrong? What remains after the end? How and when should we start emotionally preparing for the end? What is my complicity in this chain of events? What will we leave - what monument or message, intentional or otherwise - for the universe’s other residents to find? Zone Era troubles the binary of optimism and pessimism, making space to think about the zone of interwebbed apocalyptic narratives that we inhabit.
Studio Art (Summer Low Residency MFA) Students
Katia Meisinger - not exhibiting