Silvia Beatriz Abisaab & Maya Pollack | Pointing at a Ghost

Please join us on 3rd Friday, January 19, as Kiosk Gallery presents Pointing at a Ghost, a two-person exhibition by Silvia Beatriz Abisaab and Maya Pollack.

The title, Pointing at a Ghost, is the literal translation of Deixis Am Phantasma, meaning to gesture to what is not there. This draws inspiration from Karl Buhler’s deictic framework and theory on temporal imagining.

Pointing at a Ghost is a meditation on the interplay between past and future, gesturing to the immaterial through photographic and sculptural forms. Abisaab and Pollack explore the fluidity of space and time and fragments of imagery, memory, and experience.

ARTIST STATEMENTS

Silvia Beatriz Abisaab

Abisaab’s work delves into a contemplative exploration on the nature of recollection, examining how the complex and malleable mind can reshape the narrative of memories associated with images.

Utilizing crinkled silver mylar tissue paper as both a referential and symbolic material, Abisaab captures distorted and fragmented reflections of personal experiences. These captured reflections act as metaphorical representations of the gradual transformation of recollecting past memories during the present time. Here, yet then. Detailed, yet obscured. These images seek to examine the complex relationship between image, memory, and perception. Maya Pollack

Pollack’s practice is driven by material research and explorations into technology’s influence on perceptions of reality and self. Utilizing thread and Fresnel lenses, Pollack creates woven optical tapestries that reconstitute sight as a corporal experience. Placed in both urban and natural environments, Pollack’s sculptural interventions hold multiple perspectives, collapsing our physical realities and embracing the possibilities of uncertainty.

ARTIST BIOS

Silvia Beatriz Abisaab is an artist and arts administrator based in New York. She received her BFA in Photography at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2016. Abisaab utilizes photography, curatorial, and community-based practices to collaboratively work with individuals and organizations.

Maya Pollack is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from New York University in 2018. She is currently adjunct faculty at NYU in the Tisch Interactive Media Art and Steinhardt Studio Art BFA programs, teaching courses on technology, textile arts, and sculpture. Pollack creates objects that fold space and explore new modes of perspective.