Jesse Lee Vargas-Colucci is pleased to present Culture Chamber, a two day exhibition pop up. The exhibition features photographs and multimedia installation made over the course of the Trump presidency. Photographing screens that have broadcast the Trump presidency since inauguration day, Colucci has continued to track the visual messages that have circulated through spaces public, domestic and intimate, what she refers to as, “origins of an ingested collective imprint” that intervene and condition. The resulting images are the digitally disturbed documents combined with archival photographs of paintings made by Hitler and other artists favored by the ministry of culture during WWII to promote Nazi ideals and propaganda. Colucci’s Culture Chamber project began in protest against the current administration and as an investigation of the channels through which “alternative facts,” and their representative ideals circulate and mutate. Critiquing the, “Make America Great Again” dogma and its popularity, Colucci traces the reiterations of Nazi propaganda and the nostalgia it calls for, an American history that never was, a national identity manifested in disguise of truth.
