Curated by Jamie Martinez

The Border Gallery

April 30, May 7 2022, 3:30pm, 5:30pm.

 

The duration of the performance is approximately 30 minutes.

All four performances are the same. No need to RSVP. Seating will be on the gallery floor with a few chairs available.

 

Afloat is a wearable sculpture sewn onto a PVC pipe cube sized as wide as the artists outstretched arms and as high as her neck. During the performance the cube unfolds soft sculptures/ architectural garments/ quilts as well as ceramic sound instruments.

 

Wilschanski’s performance practice unravels through the artist’s body as she assembles and dismantles pseudo-sculptural costumes which alternately constrict her motion and give new, iconographic meaning to her gestures. Drawing on Jewish storytelling traditions and Western performance, Wilschanski’s wearable sculptures expose the ideological weight of clothing and the way that communal beliefs shape the body’s movement. An article of clothing may be worn by one person, but the codes that it reinforces suggest the presence of a chorus.

 

Ye’ela Wilschanki is an interdisciplinary New York based artist. She has performed and exhibited solo shows at Das Schaufenster (Seattle, MA 2021) mhPROJECTnyc (NYC, 2021), A.I.R Gallery (NYC, 2020), Arts on Site (NYC, 2019), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC 2019), Spring/Break Art Fair (2019). Past group shows include Another Place Gallery (NYC, 2022), The New School XReality Center (NYC, 2021), A4 Art Museum (2018, Luxelakes, China). Wilschanski has participated in residencies at MASH Dance House (Jerusalem Israel, 2015), Lake Studio Residency (Berlin Germany 2014), Euginiusz Geppert Academy (Wroclaw, Poland 2014). Wilschanski holds an MFA from Hunter College (NYC, 2019) and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Israel, 2014).