Rose Briccetti "Strange Mytholopoetic Fragments..."

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The works of Rose Briccetti straddle a line between naturalistic observation and painterly artifice. Briccetti digitally amasses her imagery, only to then redescribe the tableaux they create by the more traditional means of painting. Between the screen and the canvas a translation takes place, which is not unlike what happens when you run a text through Google Translate. Misnomers and absurdities might crop up, as one language is algorithmically substituted for another; but somehow there's a surreal poetry to these mistakes. The title of the show, Strange Mytholopoetic Fragments..., draws from Carl Jung's book Man and His Symbols, a text that examines the relationship between human consciousness and the symbols that surround us. In a parallel vein, Briccetti's paintings examine the relationship between the surreal and the comical. They’re equally assemblages binding together the cultural detritus of our times, and studies of social movements reflected in the image stream of online culture.