Closing Brunch: Textual Undercurrents | Elysa D. Batista
Screening: Fight Club
Sunday, October 4 | 11:30am
O Cinema Wynwood | 90 NW 29th St, Miami, FL 33127
FREE and open to the public
O Cinema Wynwood & ArtCenter/ South Florida invite you to join us for the closing reception of "Textual Undercurrents" a solo exhibition by Elysa D. Batista.
Starting at 11:30am guests will be invited to enjoy a light brunch of baked goods, fruit and mimosas in the courtyard. Then at 12:15pm guests will be invited into the auditorium for a screening of Fight Club directed by David Fincher.
THE FILM
A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.
Textual Undercurrents | Elysa D. Batista
Batista makes three-dimensional work that explores sign and text as sculptural communicators of coded information. The evolution of language as a form of interpreting the world is a constant investigation in her work. Batista carves and cuts manipulated digital typography onto materials ranging from wood, cardboard, foam core, cork or mechanically assisted onto materials such as plexiglass. It is executed in dialogue with advertorial signage that can be encountered in a storefront window or outdoor space. From anagrams to poetic sayings, Batista’s words allow the viewer to decode his/her own meaning through the multiplicity of language.
Elysa D. Batista | Panama City, Panama | Lives and works in Miami
Elysa D. Batista is a mixed media artist who works with language, specifically the multiplicity of meaning according to different contexts. Her three-dimensional work explores personal experiences with power dynamics in relationships and communication and is interpreted through the use of semiotics. Recent group exhibitions include Everything Must Go, ArtCenter’s Richard Shack Gallery (2015); Stand Out, Rise Up Gallery, FL (2014); and The Intelligence of Things, The Kitchen, NY (2013). She received a MFA from Parsons-The New School for Design in NYC in 2013 and a BFA from the University of Miami in 2010.