Johanna Mechen, Rupture/capture, Artist talk: Mike Heynes

Opening: Johanna Mechen, Rupture/capture, Artist talk: Mike Heynes

Johanna Mechen
Rupture/capture
March 17 – April 9, 2016
Opening: Wednesday March 16, 5:30pm

Enjoy is pleased to present a new installation by Johanna Mechen, our 2016 Summer Artist in Residence.

Beginning with a quest to video her vitreous eye floaters, Mechen explores the relationship between Optometry and Photography, weaving historical and contemporary elements of both practices with factual and fictitious discoveries.

These two lens based practices, components seeded with the invention of Galileo's telescope, look in opposite directions. Photography, Weston's “one searching eye”, looks out and captures, while optometry looks inward to a different set of constellations, one with its own science and subjectivity.

Mechen enlisted the help of optometrists, ophthalmologists and collectors of objects, and presents a figurative, poetic and intuitive interpretation of this research. This hybrid imagery attempts to whimsically “see inside the eye, with that same eye”,[1] while being weighed and measured against the accuracy of health professionals.

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