World Class Boxing is pleased to announce Love Trips: a Triptych on Love an exhibition by Jillian Mayer. The centerpiece of the show is a triptych entitled Everyone’s Been Lost at Sea a video installation comprised of three pieces: Temporarily Yours, endless lava, I wish for and H.I.L.M.D.A.Temporarily Yours, invites a voyeuristic viewer to watch Mayer engage in romantic passes for practice. Like much of Mayer’s video work, the piece is structured like a joke, wherein the setup withholds vital information from the viewer while engaging them in a non-linear narrative. This piece establishes the triptych’s theme of private, personal rituals done for others. While love is a shared experience, it is just as much a personal, private one in moments like the one the video explores, while also highlighting the humor and absurdity of these rituals. endless lava, I wish for is the emotional center of the triptych. In it, Mayer performs acrobatic movements, free falling from the mouth of an erupting, crudely-made concrete volcano. The final panel of the triptych video installation is H.I.L.M.D.A. which retells and reinterprets the manner in which Venus De Milo loses her arms. A new narrative is created to explain the creation of the armless beauty that replaces the history of the missing arms. The exaggerated narrative of Venus De Milo’s journey for beauty in Mayer’s H.I.L.M.D.A. seeks to create a more romantic narrative of her dismembered figure. By making the gesture of arm removal a choice for Venus, the ideal form of Western beauty becomes empowered. The accurate story of Venus’s missing arms is just history and history is now irrelevant.
Jillian Mayer was born in and lives and works in Miami, FL and received her BFA from Florida International University in 2007. She has participated in exhibitions in the US and Europe. In 2010, the artist’s work was one of the 25 selections for the Guggenheim’s Youtube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. As part of the Guggenheim’s Creative Video Biennial, the artist’s work was exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany. Recent solo projects include Family Matters at David Castillo Gallery (2011).
The exhibition opens December 1, 2011 and will be open 10am -4pm December 1-3, during Art Basel Miami Beach. Contact: 305 438 9908 or info@worldclassboxing.org World Class Boxing is located at 170 NW 23rd Street, Miami FL 33127. World Class Boxing, a former boxing gym, is an exhibition space displaying the contemporary art collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl.