"Folly": Elisheva Biernoff Solo Show

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Triple Base is proud to announce Folly, a solo show of new work by San Francisco-based Elisheva Biernoff. This installation reinvents an 18th century architectural folly -- a fanciful garden structure often in the form of ruins. The main component of Folly is a trompe l’oeil “ruin” composed of two uneven walls, painted to evoke layers of peeling wallpaper. A window in one of the walls opens onto a flat screen television showing a time-lapse film of a darkening landscape. Vines painted in gouache on cut paper creep over the walls, and the ground is punctuated with bits of painted and sculpted debris. By assembling disparate pieces that mimic reality, Folly creates a fantasy world.

In the Triple Basement, Biernoff has created a paper sculpture titled Out the Window. This installation, using visual and audio elements, considers the reality of loss and the instinct to preserve. It celebrates the small things we overlook and the large things we undervalue, and meditates on the moments where nature and culture meet. Keeping in mind that the word ecology derives from “oikos,” the Greek word for household, this work considers how the home relates to the wider world, and how the wilderness is reintroduced into our homes.

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