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Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Bouquets for Paradise, Stephanie Comilang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Stephanie Comilang’s work juxtaposes temporality, geography, and technology into objects and narratives in which the future and past become aligned, addressing diasporas, generations, survival, violence, and desire. In Bouquets for Paradise, a new series of textile works fill the room with images of the natural world. Monarch butterflies and flowers from potato, coffee, vanilla, and other plants extracted by Spanish colonizers, are machine embroidered on deconstructed denim clothing, stretched over tea-dyed canvas. These wall works surround figures shrouded in embroidered veils made from denim and piña fabric. Comilang’s embroidery methods mimic the unique vision of the monarch butterfly. Incredibly delicate and weighing less than half a gram, Monarchs in North America undertake one of the longest migrations of any insect in the...More
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Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Bouquets for Paradise, Stephanie Comilang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Stephanie Comilang’s work juxtaposes temporality, geography, and technology into objects and narratives in which the future and past become aligned, addressing diasporas, generations, survival, violence, and desire. In Bouquets for Paradise, a new series of textile works fill the room with images of the natural world. Monarch butterflies and flowers from potato, coffee, vanilla, and other plants extracted by Spanish colonizers, are machine embroidered on deconstructed denim clothing, stretched over tea-dyed canvas. These wall works surround figures shrouded in embroidered veils made from denim and piña fabric. Comilang’s embroidery methods mimic the unique vision of the monarch butterfly. Incredibly delicate and weighing less than half a gram, Monarchs in North America undertake one of the longest migrations of any insect in the...More
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