Rudy Natanzon
Sophie Friedman-Pappas: Transfer Station
By Rudy NatanzonIn the process of creating what she calls self-cannibalized assemblages, Friedman-Pappas continually disassembles and rearranges found bits of driftwood, plastic figurines, half-chewed dog toys, phragmites, and other materials from the Freshkills area. The results are objects that appear to be neither hand-crafted nor found; they are weathered by wind or decomposed under layers of soil, but are simultaneously new.
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
By Rudy NatanzonIn the story of the Tower of Babel, God punishes the Babylonians for pridefully attempting to build a tower tall enough to grasp Heaven. He fatally confuses them by introducing varied language to a homogenous global tongue