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Untitled (Journals Found & Kept), 2018 - ongoing, analogue photographs of handwritten journal entries, found and created, size variable.
When a family member passed away in 2017 and an uncle suggested handing-around her journals as everyone fiddled reflectively about the living room after her memorial service, I began thinking about this weird and intimate posthumous portrait of selfhood that is one’s private written life. For instance, we read several of her unsent love poems to someone who seemed to be a coworker... to our knowledge, a relationship never actualized, never acknowledged verbally. Apparently upon her death, Sontag’s own journals too held an emotional rhizome, atypical of the pointed thought so marked by her other writing... How do our inner thoughts carry into life actions and perceptions that implicate the world beyond our front door?
EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS:
2021 Writ, group exhibition, curated by Sarah E. Brook, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2019 Install/Deinstall, experimental group exhibition, curated by Gabriela Vainsencher, 601 ArtSpace, NY, NY.
2018 “Instant Satisfaction,” group exhibition, Happy Lucky No.1, curated by Andrew Zaca, Brooklyn, NY.
2018 Private Psychotherapy Practice, Downtown Manhattan, NY.
"I'm not thinking right now..."
2013
Book (published 1960s) with embroidered thread, graphite and needle.
Installation view from "Unravelled," Beirut Art Center, curated by Rachel Dedman and Marie Muraccolie, with artists Majd Abdel Hamid, Mounira Al Solh, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji, Alighiero e Boetti, Michele Cohen, Janna Dyk, Mona Hatoum, Sheila Hicks, Annette Messager, Khalil Rabah, Karen Reimer, Nasri Sayegh, Laure Tixier, and Raed Yassin.
I'M NOT THINKING RIGHT NOW - EXHIBITIONS & PRESS:
2016 Unravelled, group exhibition, Beirut Art Center, curated by Marie Muracciole, Rachel Dedman, Lebanon.
"Unravelled," The New York Times, Global Art Section, September 9, 2016
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
*Excerpt:
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
"Et aussi dans I am not thinking right now de Janna Dyk qui vient chambouler l'ordre des choses en insérant des fils partout au-dessus des pages de The Origins and History of Consciousness, un ouvrage de Erich Neumann qui corrobore la pensée controversée de Carl Jung qui prétendait que la conscience est un attribut strictement masculin. La preuve qu'on peut piocher dans un « art du passé », et, avec, inventer l'avenir."
"I'm not thinking right now..."
2013
Book (published 1960s) with embroidered thread, graphite and needle.
Installation view from "Unravelled," Beirut Art Center, curated by Rachel Dedman and Marie Muraccolie, with artists Majd Abdel Hamid, Mounira Al Solh, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji, Alighiero e Boetti, Michele Cohen, Janna Dyk, Mona Hatoum, Sheila Hicks, Annette Messager, Khalil Rabah, Karen Reimer, Nasri Sayegh, Laure Tixier, and Raed Yassin.
I'M NOT THINKING RIGHT NOW - EXHIBITIONS & PRESS:
2016 Unravelled, group exhibition, Beirut Art Center, curated by Marie Muracciole, Rachel Dedman, Lebanon.
"Unravelled," The New York Times, Global Art Section, September 9, 2016
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
*Excerpt:
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
"Et aussi dans I am not thinking right now de Janna Dyk qui vient chambouler l'ordre des choses en insérant des fils partout au-dessus des pages de The Origins and History of Consciousness, un ouvrage de Erich Neumann qui corrobore la pensée controversée de Carl Jung qui prétendait que la conscience est un attribut strictement masculin. La preuve qu'on peut piocher dans un « art du passé », et, avec, inventer l'avenir."
is / this / it / ? / . / this / it
2016-19
is this it? is a series of Digital C-Prints of hand-embroidered texts, whose meaning alter poetically depending on the way they are installed in a space.
is / this / it / ? / . / this / it
2016-19
is this it? is a series of Digital C-Prints of hand-embroidered texts, whose meaning alter poetically depending on the way they are installed in a space.
is / this / it / ? / . / this / it
2016-19
is this it? is a series of Digital C-Prints of hand-embroidered texts, whose meaning alter poetically depending on the way they are installed in a space.
“how (blur), fig. 2”, 2015
Digital C-Print on Matte Archival Paper
Dimensions variable, 24 x 30 in.From:
To Tell You
2014-2015
To Tell You is a series of photographs, a video, and a text, examining the nature of conversations, remembered.
Installation photos by Adam Golfer of the May-June 2015 group exhibition at 205 Hudson Gallery (New York).
A revised version of the text was performed at the St. Mark's Poetry Project (New York), in November 2015, and again in May 2017 at the Marble House Project (Vermont).
“view (collage for cell phone), I & II”, 2015
Digital C-Print on Matte Archival Paper
8x10 in. eachFrom:
To Tell You
2014-2015
To Tell You is a series of photographs, a video, and a text, examining the nature of conversations, remembered.
Installation photos by Adam Golfer of the May-June 2015 group exhibition at 205 Hudson Gallery (New York).
A revised version of the text was performed at the St. Mark's Poetry Project (New York), in November 2015, and again in May 2017 at the Marble House Project (Vermont).
“Sit here, -”, 2015
Embroidery and needlepoint on canvas
13x19 in.
"conversational mathematics"
Rice-paper book with ink and embroidery
2013
"Certain people," graphite and embroidery on paper, 2013
EXHIBITIONS/PRESS:
Shall We Talk, or Will We Just Gaze?,” Hunter College 205 Hudson, NY, 2013.
“Janna Dyk: Shall We Talk, or Will We Just Gaze?,” Curator Magazine, May 2014^
"Through a Glass Dimly," interactive performance, in "All Of The Above" curated by Michael Benrube and Keena Gonzalez, at The Church Of St Paul The Apostle. Image (c) 2013 JML Photo.
"Through a Glass Dimly," interactive performance, in "All Of The Above" curated by Michael Benrube and Keena Gonzalez, at The Church Of St Paul The Apostle. Image (c) 2013 Keena Gonzalez. All rights reserved.
21 DAYS
For three weeks in 2009, pre-selfie-culture, 36 people from 6 countries were asked to take a photo and write of themselves, sent to the artist. In 2020 the project’s documents were excavated for an exhibition on technology and vulnerability.
EXHIBITIONS, AFFILIATED PROGRAMMING, PRESS, BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2020 “Redirect,” group exhibition, curated by Suzanne Dittenbar, Tiger Strikes Asteroid SE /Revolve/RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC, Jan. 24 - Feb. 24.
2020 Panel discussion on technology and changing sociopolitical landscapes, with Lei Han, Joyce Lee, Ben Duvall, and Victoria Bradbury, RAMP, Asheville, NC, Jan.
2020 “Slow Connection: TSA presents REDIRECT in Asheville,” BURNAWAY Art Review, Feb. 13, 2020
2020 Essay by Paddy Johnson, Exhibition Catalogue, TXTbooks (Brooklyn) and TSA SE (Asheville).
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Untitled (Journals Found & Kept), 2018 - ongoing, analogue photographs of handwritten journal entries, found and created, size variable.
When a family member passed away in 2017 and an uncle suggested handing-around her journals as everyone fiddled reflectively about the living room after her memorial service, I began thinking about this weird and intimate posthumous portrait of selfhood that is one’s private written life. For instance, we read several of her unsent love poems to someone who seemed to be a coworker... to our knowledge, a relationship never actualized, never acknowledged verbally. Apparently upon her death, Sontag’s own journals too held an emotional rhizome, atypical of the pointed thought so marked by her other writing... How do our inner thoughts carry into life actions and perceptions that implicate the world beyond our front door?
EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS:
2021 Writ, group exhibition, curated by Sarah E. Brook, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2019 Install/Deinstall, experimental group exhibition, curated by Gabriela Vainsencher, 601 ArtSpace, NY, NY.
2018 “Instant Satisfaction,” group exhibition, Happy Lucky No.1, curated by Andrew Zaca, Brooklyn, NY.
2018 Private Psychotherapy Practice, Downtown Manhattan, NY.
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"I'm not thinking right now..."
2013
Book (published 1960s) with embroidered thread, graphite and needle.
Installation view from "Unravelled," Beirut Art Center, curated by Rachel Dedman and Marie Muraccolie, with artists Majd Abdel Hamid, Mounira Al Solh, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji, Alighiero e Boetti, Michele Cohen, Janna Dyk, Mona Hatoum, Sheila Hicks, Annette Messager, Khalil Rabah, Karen Reimer, Nasri Sayegh, Laure Tixier, and Raed Yassin.
I'M NOT THINKING RIGHT NOW - EXHIBITIONS & PRESS:
2016 Unravelled, group exhibition, Beirut Art Center, curated by Marie Muracciole, Rachel Dedman, Lebanon.
"Unravelled," The New York Times, Global Art Section, September 9, 2016
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
*Excerpt:
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
"Et aussi dans I am not thinking right now de Janna Dyk qui vient chambouler l'ordre des choses en insérant des fils partout au-dessus des pages de The Origins and History of Consciousness, un ouvrage de Erich Neumann qui corrobore la pensée controversée de Carl Jung qui prétendait que la conscience est un attribut strictement masculin. La preuve qu'on peut piocher dans un « art du passé », et, avec, inventer l'avenir."
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"I'm not thinking right now..."
2013
Book (published 1960s) with embroidered thread, graphite and needle.
Installation view from "Unravelled," Beirut Art Center, curated by Rachel Dedman and Marie Muraccolie, with artists Majd Abdel Hamid, Mounira Al Solh, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji, Alighiero e Boetti, Michele Cohen, Janna Dyk, Mona Hatoum, Sheila Hicks, Annette Messager, Khalil Rabah, Karen Reimer, Nasri Sayegh, Laure Tixier, and Raed Yassin.
I'M NOT THINKING RIGHT NOW - EXHIBITIONS & PRESS:
2016 Unravelled, group exhibition, Beirut Art Center, curated by Marie Muracciole, Rachel Dedman, Lebanon.
"Unravelled," The New York Times, Global Art Section, September 9, 2016
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
*Excerpt:
"Sortir la broderie de son carcan << domestique et pas sexy>>," L'Orient Du Jour, October 6, 2016
"Et aussi dans I am not thinking right now de Janna Dyk qui vient chambouler l'ordre des choses en insérant des fils partout au-dessus des pages de The Origins and History of Consciousness, un ouvrage de Erich Neumann qui corrobore la pensée controversée de Carl Jung qui prétendait que la conscience est un attribut strictement masculin. La preuve qu'on peut piocher dans un « art du passé », et, avec, inventer l'avenir."
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is / this / it / ? / . / this / it
2016-19
is this it? is a series of Digital C-Prints of hand-embroidered texts, whose meaning alter poetically depending on the way they are installed in a space.
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is / this / it / ? / . / this / it
2016-19
is this it? is a series of Digital C-Prints of hand-embroidered texts, whose meaning alter poetically depending on the way they are installed in a space.
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is / this / it / ? / . / this / it
2016-19
is this it? is a series of Digital C-Prints of hand-embroidered texts, whose meaning alter poetically depending on the way they are installed in a space.
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“how (blur), fig. 2”, 2015
Digital C-Print on Matte Archival Paper
Dimensions variable, 24 x 30 in.From:
To Tell You
2014-2015
To Tell You is a series of photographs, a video, and a text, examining the nature of conversations, remembered.
Installation photos by Adam Golfer of the May-June 2015 group exhibition at 205 Hudson Gallery (New York).
A revised version of the text was performed at the St. Mark's Poetry Project (New York), in November 2015, and again in May 2017 at the Marble House Project (Vermont).
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“view (collage for cell phone), I & II”, 2015
Digital C-Print on Matte Archival Paper
8x10 in. eachFrom:
To Tell You
2014-2015
To Tell You is a series of photographs, a video, and a text, examining the nature of conversations, remembered.
Installation photos by Adam Golfer of the May-June 2015 group exhibition at 205 Hudson Gallery (New York).
A revised version of the text was performed at the St. Mark's Poetry Project (New York), in November 2015, and again in May 2017 at the Marble House Project (Vermont).
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“Sit here, -”, 2015
Embroidery and needlepoint on canvas
13x19 in. -
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"conversational mathematics"
Rice-paper book with ink and embroidery
2013 -
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"Certain people," graphite and embroidery on paper, 2013
EXHIBITIONS/PRESS:
Shall We Talk, or Will We Just Gaze?,” Hunter College 205 Hudson, NY, 2013.
“Janna Dyk: Shall We Talk, or Will We Just Gaze?,” Curator Magazine, May 2014^
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"Through a Glass Dimly," interactive performance, in "All Of The Above" curated by Michael Benrube and Keena Gonzalez, at The Church Of St Paul The Apostle. Image (c) 2013 JML Photo.
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"Through a Glass Dimly," interactive performance, in "All Of The Above" curated by Michael Benrube and Keena Gonzalez, at The Church Of St Paul The Apostle. Image (c) 2013 Keena Gonzalez. All rights reserved.
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21 DAYS
For three weeks in 2009, pre-selfie-culture, 36 people from 6 countries were asked to take a photo and write of themselves, sent to the artist. In 2020 the project’s documents were excavated for an exhibition on technology and vulnerability.
EXHIBITIONS, AFFILIATED PROGRAMMING, PRESS, BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2020 “Redirect,” group exhibition, curated by Suzanne Dittenbar, Tiger Strikes Asteroid SE /Revolve/RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC, Jan. 24 - Feb. 24.
2020 Panel discussion on technology and changing sociopolitical landscapes, with Lei Han, Joyce Lee, Ben Duvall, and Victoria Bradbury, RAMP, Asheville, NC, Jan.
2020 “Slow Connection: TSA presents REDIRECT in Asheville,” BURNAWAY Art Review, Feb. 13, 2020
2020 Essay by Paddy Johnson, Exhibition Catalogue, TXTbooks (Brooklyn) and TSA SE (Asheville).
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