Robert Capozzi's mélange is an installation of photographic-based work that suggests notions of privacy, protection and alienation. Derived from various lens-based image-making methods, the exhibition merges the results of various types of digital and analog media.

Often using obsolete film cameras and low-end image scanners to capture his subject, the imposed limitations become a challenge that adds a poetic unknown to the process. A faith in film as an intermediary adds mystery in the making process, vastly unknown in a convenient, rapid-fire digital era. Capozzi affirms, such with life, flaws are often apparent but hover merely at the surface.

Both stark and subtle, mélange employs elements including archival digital prints to Frankensteined electronics including LCD displays and cast off television sets. The result is a quasi-interactive record of light, shadow and reflection.

Everyone carries a shadow, Jung wrote, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

The work in this exhibition expands the concept of time-based media in such a way that not only questions media itself, but also the traditional concept of a gallery exhibition. Robert Capozzi has chosen to devote the month of this exhibition to the purpose of manipulating the space and expanding upon the presented body of work with various on the spot performances of an artist in practice. The gallery itself will become the art, and the concepts of mark making, photography, and video are to be embraced as process but not product. The exhibition itself: the artist working in the space, the documented changes that will take place to the art, the gallery walls, and the environment created will be embraced as the mélange.

For the purpose of the opening itself, and in recognition of the process-based nature of the exhibition, Capozzi has chosen to forgo the traditional celebration of art in completion. A closing party will be held on July 10th, where viewers can witness the installation in its entirety as well as video documentation of the work in progress. Please feel free to stop by throughout the coming weeks.

Visit our artist's web site: Robert Capozzi.