Denise Marika
Akin Gallery
Denise Marika’s installation, consisting of three site-specific sculptures, used photographic and video projection to transform the gallery space into an interactive multimedia arena, juxtaposing and counterbalancing advanced technology with mundane physical reality. Electronic video images were projected onto sculptural materials and pieces to create multidimensional works. In familiar but highly lyrical images, “Projections,” 1992, explored the human struggle with identity and autonomy in an increasingly desensitized voyeuristic culture .
“Projections,” like her previous work, brought intimate