Today is the day, friends. Below is a message to warm you up or cool you down as you look at my room.
안녕하세요. 내 침실에 온 걸 환영 해
내가 잠 들어 깨어 났을
때 가장 먼저 생각하는 것은
…
"왜 방금 나에게 말을 못했는지?"
나는 진실의 가치가 있는가?
나는 기쁨의 가치가 있습니까?
왜 항상 다른 사람에게 붙어 있습니까?
외부로? 어떻게 가져 오나요?
어떻게 퍼 뜨리나요?
나는 그것을 넣을 수 없습니다.
그러나 여기에 당신을 허락 할 것입니다.
언제나 그렇듯이 감사합니다
그냥 머리 위로, 이것은 나쁜 번역입니다. 행운을 빕니다. ❤
I will provide the PDF of my work my classmates have access to at a later moment.
And here is my press release:
Numb//Tender
Nefertiti Jenkins is bringing you into her bedroom (sort of… as close as one can get, at least).
Jenkins’ paintings and drawings utilize motifs and spaces intimate and personal to her practice and life. This includes using the body as a visual modality for the landscape with rugs, mugs, and lamps decorating the periphery, and flowers peeking into the frame. Figures blends into the background and objects overlap, one intertwining with the other. Perspectives shift, becoming closed-in and pushed forward, confrontational but unaggressive. The mundane becomes sacred and panoptic with ballooning limbs, sinuous hair, and glittering objects floating outward while beckoning the viewer inward.
Colors spread across a jewel-like spectrum overlaid with a soft glow lense, akin to stage lighting or the ambient glow of a candle. The artworks have now coalesced into one space, having been relegated to the bedroom. Paintings and drawings will be displayed salon style throughout Jenkins’ bedroom. The art will coexist and mirror the origins of their ornaments: a cluttered desk, patterned rug, a lived in beanbag chair, crystal lined lamps, and a quilt covered, empty bed.
I am too tired to take in what today means right now. I am sure it will hit me later. But to anyone who kept along for the ride, thank you. Still more to come. 💕