Shanna Maurizi: Description of Changing Conditions

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There is an idea in quantum physics that the quantum reality is like a box that we can’t see into. We can recieve messages from it, and have theories that can be proven about the messages, but we can’t ever see inside. Maurizi is interested in these attempts at understanding, or attempts at description, of something incomprehensible. Here she is working with a vocabulary including the sphere or planet and several diagrams from physics and complexity theory. The pieces are made using film cameras (the Minox subminiature format and consumer plastic cameras from the 1960’s) and darkroom processes. Incorporating drawing and various methods to burn away the print emulsion, she is constantly experimenting and pushing the possibilities of photographic materials.

Shanna Maurizi is an artist and experimental filmmaker living and working between Brooklyn and Detroit. Her works on paper and photography have been shown at Famous Accountants, Songs for Presidents, Observatory, White Box, the Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Rotterdam Kunsthal among many others, and her films have garnered festival awards and screened at venues including Anthology Film Archives, Other Cinema, and SF Cinematheque. Her short film Late Night with Carl Sagan premiered at NewFilmmakers NYC, and her most recent film Sunken Treasure is premiering at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival.