Video-animation
1’41”, color, silent
2023
Entre-linhas involves drawing, cutting, and collaging over video images captured by the artist herself during a trip to the Argentine northwest. In it, the hands of a craftsperson intertwine threads and patterns on a loom.
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Two channel video installation
00’50’’ and 00’40’’ (loop), color, silent
2018
An image of two coconut trees, captured from a faded tourist advertisement about Brazil in Buenos Aires, naturally loaded with exoticism and melancholic cliché, is interrupted by an Argentinian train as the starting point.
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Video animation,
1’00’’ (loop), black and white, silent
2016
Over 1,000 frottages were made of surfaces in and around the artist's temporary studio in Dubai. Eventually all rubbings were scanned and animated with the artist's feet walking over the different surfaces. This is an abstract simulation, a double of the real that preserves its raw, yet exacting, impressions from the nuances of place and time. (this animation was developed from an artist’s book made with the frottages during the artist’s Alserkal-Delfina residency)
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Video animation,
2’00’’ (loop), color, silent
2012
Blackout is a short sequence of over 700 drawings, collages, frames and images of Dubai produced and manipulated through repeating a few basic actions, such as folding, copying, cutting, mirroring.
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Video animation
4’15’’ (loop), color, silent
2011
The video animation is made from re-drawn/collaged stills of a worker from the outskirts of Sao Paulo gluing together a billboard during the time billboards were outlawed.
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Video animation,
4’00’’ (loop), color, silent
2011
Discarded billboards that have printing errors are used as a platform in this video animation
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Video animation
01’00’’ (loop), color, silent
2009
Using drawings and collage frame by frame, DeleveleD is structured around a body that moves through time and space.
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Video animation
01’00’’ loop, color, silent
2009
01’00’’ loop, color, silent
2009
Natureza Morta is assembled from recording the daily setup of a fruit vendor in a rural town in Argentina.
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Video animation
02’15’’ loop, color, silent
2008
02’15’’ loop, color, silent
2008
Cegueira is comprised of a series of drawings and photographs, in excess of 600 images each, collected predominately from Sao Paulo and condensed into a complex animated sequence.
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BIO
Jessica Mein was born in São Paulo and lives and works in Buenos Aires. She received her MFA from Hunter College, New York and BA from Duke University. Solo exhibitions include The Pavilion Downtown, Dubai, Simon Preston, New York and Galeria Leme, São Paulo. She also exhibited as part of The Street Files – Biennial El Museo del Barrio, New York; The Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf; The Drawing Center, New York; Wellin Museum, Hamilton College, New York; Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico; Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai; Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai; New York University, Abu Dhabi and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, among others. Her work is included in collections of The Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf and The Albright Knox, Buffalo, and Museu de Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo. Mein participated as an artist-in-residence of Art Dubai in 2015, partnered with the Delfina Art Foundation, and was awarded an Alserkal Avenue artist commission project in 2016. In 2022 she participated in the New Roots Foundation artist residency in Antigua, Guatemala.
Over the last twenty years, Mein has developed her research around the physicality of images, supports and the limits of language. In her work, the line is a fundamental element with which the artist engages in its most diverse forms and materials. First as a trace, contour, and rifts in her drawings and video animations, and then as materiality in the unraveling of the weaves on cotton canvases, hemp bags, looms, and lace. Through the line, the artist explores contradictions and porosities between support and artwork, intellectual and manual labour, finished and unfinished, artist and artisan.
CV
2007
Fine Arts Post Baccalaureate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1999
Bachelor of Arts, Duke University, Durham, USA
1997
Academic Scholarship, Kansai Gaidai Daigaku, Osaka, Japan
1995
Galeria Leme
São Paulo, Brazil
2023
Sem titulo
Galeria Leme
São Paulo, Brazil
2018
Desvios
Simon Preston
New York, USA
2016
Topologies
Work commissioned by Alserkal Avenue,
Warehouse 51
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2016
Tramas
Galeria Leme
São Paulo. Brazil
2015
Obras
Simon Preston
New York, USA
2013
Sliced Sky
New York University
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;
NYU, New York, USA
2013
Blackout
Galeria Leme
São Paulo, Brazil
2012
The Pavilion Downtown
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2012
Verso Reverso
Simon Preston Gallery
New York, USA
2011
Cegueira
Gallery Pfeister
Gudhjem, Denmark
2010
Feldman Gallery Project Room
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Portland, USA
2009
Natureza Morta
Tony Wight Gallery
Chicago, USA
2008
Simon Preston Gallery (with Carlos Bevilacqua)
New York, USA
2008
São Paulo, Brasil
2024
Andar pelas bordas: sobre práticas de bordado e cuidado (curadoria de Lilia Moritz Schwarcz)
Galeria Arte 132
São Paulo, Brasil
2023
De Infinitum
Espacio Cultural San Andrés
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019
Avesso Viés (curadoria curated by Paulo Miyada) Galeria SIM,
São Paulo, Brazil
2018
Ten Years After
Simon Preston Gallery
New York, NY
2017
Hudnilson Jr
Jessica Mein and Vivian Suter
Condo NY, Simon Preston Gallery
New York, USA
2016
Surface as Interface as Surface
Carbon 12
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2016
Becoming the Image (curated by Fiona Biberstein)
Jessica Mein, Joseph Montgomery & Patricia Treib, projects | at fifteen Tel Aviv, Israel
2015
It's going to take a lot of love
Franklin Street Works Stamford, USA
2015
Nice Drawings
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2015
On the Blue Shore of Silence
Tracy Williams Gallery New York, USA
2014
CHICK LIT: Revised Summer Reading
Tracy Williams Gallery New York, USA
2013
Chromophobia
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2013
October 18, 1977
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert
New York, USA
2013
A Sense of Place, The Ruth and Elmer Wellin
Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, USA
2013
Outras Coisas Visíveis sobre Papel
Galeria Leme
São Paulo, Brazil
2012
Imbue
LMAK Projects Gallery New York, USA
2012
A Complete Die, etc Fleisher/Ollman Gallery Philadelphia, USA
2012
Everyday Angles
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University,
Cambridge, USA
2012
Mind – Dubai Contemporary 2012, DUCTAC – Gallery of Light
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2012
The First Rebellion is History, Next Week Rome Falls
Simon Preston Gallery
New York, USA
2012
Pathway: Drawing In, On, and Through the Landscape
Drawing Center and the Big Screen Project
New York, USA
2011
Number Five: Cities of Gold and Mirrors
Julia Stoschek Collection Dusseldorf, Germany
2011
The Street Files Biennial
El Museo del Barrio
New York, USA
2011
Off Camera Fleisher/Ollman Gallery Philadelphia, USA
2011
Mixing It Up: Recent Hunter MFAs Working in Combined Media, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, USA
2009
Smartspaces, curated by Nathalie Angles and Ellen Scott, New York, USA
2009
New York Group Show
LM D Gallery
Paris, France
2009
The Moving Index with Jordan Biren and Nina Katchadourian (curated by Victoria Fu and Julie Orser)
online exhibition
2009
Open Video Series No.7 (curated by Peter Garfield)
CRG Gallery
New York, USA
2008
Recent Acquisitions
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, USA
2008
New York School (co-curated by Chip Tom and John Friedman)
Rohrer Fine Art
Laguna Beach, USA
2008
Momenta Art Benefit Brooklyn, NY and White Columns Gallery,
New York, USA
2008
At Arms Length (curated by Lauren Dickens and Julie McKim)
Nurture-Art
New York, USA
2008
Hunter MFA Thesis Show New York, USA
2007
Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse
Lehman College Art Gallery
New York, USA
2006
Video_Dumbo screening during the D.U.M.B.O Arts Festival
New York, USA
2007
Mastered: A Selection of Recent MFA Video Art (curated by Emma Spertus)
Two Boots Pioneer Theater,
New York, USA
2006
Video_Dumbo screening during the D.U.M.B.O Arts Festival,
New York, USA
2006
20ª Mostra de Vídeo de Santo André
São Paulo, Brazil
2006
Strathmin vídeo aired on CUNY TV
New York, USA
2006
Videoarte contemporaneo de Nueva York
Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporaneo
Mexico City, Mexico
2006
Video_Dumbo screening during the D.U.M.B.O Arts Festival
New York, USA
2005
Back to the Front: Emerging Artists
Slought Foundation
Philadelphia, USA
2004
Descontexto
Kelly Writers House Philadelphia, USA
2004
Festival de Inverno Bragança Paulista, Brazil
2003
26o SARP-
Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2002
Museu de Arte Contemporânea Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
2001
2015
Alserkal Avenue, Commission for 2015-2016 season, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2015
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Cleveland Clinic Collection, USA
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