Perry Burns, Jali

Jali is a square painting in which a photograph of a group of Islamic women is nearly indiscernible due to the application of a black pixilated pattern such as one that might be found in a QR Code, the title refers to a term for a perforated stone or latticed screen common in Islamic architecture. The pattern obstructs an image of Pakistani women wearing burqas and thus reveals multiple layers of separation between the viewer (us) and the subjects of the painting (them).

Do you see what I see? 

The politics of seeing……

Politician II (part of the Heads of State series)

Perry Burns Art, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY. June 30th-August 3rd. 

Opening reception Saturday June 30th from 6:00-8:00 pm

Like a video game on pause, Perry Burns’s Over Kandahar, named after the Afghan city, captures a computerized battle. Helicopters fly directly toward the viewer, and from the smoke in the left-hand side, it’s clear that there is destruction ahead. Below the bright blue skies surrounding these bombers is a series of colored and grayscale streaks followed by op-art bulls-eyes. Burns challenges the complacency of playing a video game with the reality of the death and destruction of war.

Where road signs and philosophy meet. I photographed this image because you are either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it or trying to get a piece of it, you might as well put up a big sign about it!

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