Shrines

Interweaving digitally generated imagery with original footage Shrines unfolds a late capitalist media landscape in which collective icons constitute and permeate both outside and inside worlds Viral images from political news pop art and film history invoke situations of biological threat and social tension states of pharmacological dependence and carnal bondage Moments of relief and liberation appear in analog film sequences in which Satterwhite stages his body as medium for processing these crisisridden realities In this intersection of painting performance and video Satterwhite continuously challenges a canon of Western art history and proposes a possible mode of healing from systems of biopolitical social and cultural exclusion