"New York has long thrived on artists who blur the lines between spectacle and statement, and RAE BK has never been one to play it safe. The downtown fixture, known for his scavenged characters and layered storytelling, has taken his latest project far beyond the concrete jungle and into a decidedly quieter setting. His newest exhibition, Faraday Cage, opened on August 16 not in a gallery but inside a small prefab house in upstate New York."
"It's an unassuming shell hiding a five-room storm of diaristic murals, video work, animatronic figures, and sculptural detritus that together form one of his most daring installations to date. By rejecting the polished neutrality of a traditional gallery, RAE BK forces his audience to confront art in an intimate, domestic frame. The prefab house is not just a venue; it's part of the artwork itself, reimagined as a labyrinth where familiarity becomes unstable."
"Each room functions as a different chapter, mixing scavenged objects with splintered narratives that draw viewers into spaces that are at once personal and political. The choice of setting sharpens the tension between public and private, echoing the way everyday life has become increasingly surveilled, digitized, and mediated. Instead of stepping into a white cube with the safety net of distance, visitors are plunged into a lived-in world warped into something uncanny - a reminder that art doesn't have to sit neatly on a plinth or a wall to be powerful."
Faraday Cage occupies a small prefab house in upstate New York and rearranges domestic architecture into a five-room labyrinth. Diaristic murals cover the walls, populated by scavenged, sprayed, and stitched characters that form layered, uneasy narratives. Video installations flicker like distorted memories, while animatronic figures enact absent relationships through repetitive, uncanny movement. Household objects are remade into sculptural detritus that destabilizes notions of comfort and familiarity. The setting collapses the divide between public and private, invoking themes of surveillance, digitization, and mediated experience. The overall effect is intimate, confrontational, and deliberately destabilizing.
Read at stupidDOPE | Est. 2008
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