Little Italy, New York
Group Exhibition
Sin Fatigue
Salma SarriedineCatalina Ouyang, Zhi Wei Hiu, Erin Riley, Savannah Knoop, Jesus Hilario-Reyes, Patrick McNabb, Laura Anderson Barbata, Carlos Motta, Damon Zucconi, Alex Ito, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter “Once again, we have fallen into one of those eras that ask the philosopher, not to explain or to transform the world, but solely to build refuges against the harshness of the weather.” —Nicolás Gómez Dávila, In Margine a un Testo Implicito Salma Sarriedine welcomes you to Sin Fatigue, an inaugural group show for the precipitous start of 2025. When days are shortest and our collective consciousness has reached depletion and exhaustion, we might reconsider light and dark. Lucifer comes from Latin light-bearer, a name for the devil. The interaction between substrate luciferin and enzyme luciferase produces bioluminescence. Employed by sensing organisms at all depths of the ocean for over 500 million years for the purpose of communication, luring prey and evading predation, bioluminescence is an ancient echo of our own radiant, ever-evolving technologies. Exposing, blinding, burning the retina and disturbing sleep cycles, light pollutes as well as illuminates. What are the spiritual and ritual strategies for weathering troubled times? What might we see when we allow our eyes to adjust to the dark? Across diverse modes of making, the presented artworks share a breaking with the supposed fixity of their mediums. Technologies such as photography and facial recognition software, designed for definitive permanence, are transformed in a spellwork of artistic vision. Here, you will find: a score for performing mutual care and tenderness in a barren environment— the incandescence of communal perseverance against a backdrop of neglect and ruin. A spell for the seabed, inverting the abyssal and celestial. Weavings of data and words, instruments and ritual garments for the protection of the ocean, incantations for work and survival, sympathetic magic for the witnessing of each calendar day. Here, the tricky, sieve-like nature of images and objects morph and degrade in dynamic undoing. Sin Fatigue is an invocation, offering a prayer to the ineffable as protective talisman —other ways of being and holding one another— for this new year in its brutal, nascent unfolding. —Mollie Goldstrom