Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes from the Empathic Universe invites visitors to enter the kaleidoscopic and culturally hybrid worlds created by the artist.
The exhibition features an immersive video installation exploring portraiture and a series of new mixed media collages, all accessed through the North Wing elevator, transformed by Woolfalk’s digitally-collaged murals. Known for her site-specific multimedia works that investigate global traditions and cultural difference, Woolfalk is the creator of the Empathics—fictional futuristic beings who time-travel and shape-shift across the multiverse. For this exhibition Woolfalk studied the Museum’s herbaria (plant specimens) and landscape painting collections, reinterpreting these artifacts—and their relation to American identity—from the perspective of the Empathics.
Visit the related exhibition Saya Woolfalk: Tumbling Into Landscape also on view in Seeing America: 18th and 19th Centuries.
About the Artist
Saya Woolfalk is a New York-based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. Working with a wide range of traditional and new media, Woolfalk creates immersive installations that activate themes of hybridity, technology, and human culture. Learn more about this artist.
