Sarah Faux and Gaby Collins-Fernandez in Conversation | Brooklyn Rail

On Tuesday 15 April, Sarah Faux joined Brooklyn Rail contributor Gaby Collins-Fernandez on The New Social Environment for a conversation on her current exhibition at Hales New York, Autofriction.

 

For those who were unable to join the Zoom, the conversation is now live on Brooklyn Rail's website.

 

In Autofriction, Faux explores the delights and contradictions of living in a body. Throughout the exhibition, Faux's vibrant colours and intertwining shapes slide and slip, pushing and pulling, as imagery comes in and out of focus. By letting go of narrative, Faux's motifs emerge unburdened - zippers, fingers and limbs moving through ambiguous spaces - touching, gripping and clasping. Joyfully dissociative, Faux's compositions feel just as likely to coalesce into a familiar scene of intimate connection as they do to rip themselves apart.