Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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Videos
PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS
2022PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS (2022, 4K Digital video, 3:00) blends together ancient mythology, contemporary dance, and post-humanist theory, citing sources like the classical "Myth of Psyche", Yvonne Rainer's 1966 "Hand Movie", and Dr. Donna Harraway's 1988 "Situated Knowledges." In PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS, the three central protagonists (moth, hand, and dust) are filmed sculpturally by VLM in a decentralized and multi-perspectival gaze, complete macro close-ups, diverse camera angles, and rhythmic jump-cuts. Encapsulating these choreographies is the artist's multi-layered elemental soundscape of low humming thunderstorms, playful water droplets, and tinkling temple bells. Collectively, VLM's cast of lush atmospheric sounds and uncanny visual motifs, like beckoning French nails, fluttering moth wings, and wandering dust particles, create the dreamscape of PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS—a soothing space where consciousness flows intuitively between bodies of gesture, texture, and sound. PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS is entirely self-produced, filmed, edited, performed-by, and sound-scored by VLM.
Added on: August 25, 2022
HONEY MOON
2019HONEY MOON is a serene, sensorial, and silent film about the uncanny flow of time. Coyly literal, the film depicts the artist's hand cradling a small moon as honey sensually streams into a dark void beyond. HONEY MOON was performed, produced, and edited by VLM, and filmed by the artist in a single, 170-second take within a miniature film-set made from black mirror planes. The work itself is surreal yet straightforward, documenting a real-time, solo performance with simple materials that conjures contemplation.
Added on: August 25, 2022
BUTTERFLY BIRTH BED
2020BUTTERFLY BIRTH BED is a metaphysical art film about hope. Inspired by 'The Butterfly Effect'—the philosophical theorem that any small change in our environment, even the gentle flapping of a butterfly's wings may manifest big climatic change—the film documents the ethereal emergence of live butterflies over storm imagery contained in a butterfly-scale Shaker bed. Collectively, BUTTERFLY BIRTH BED's symbolism and elemental soundscape facilitate a surreal incantation for healing, hope, and recovery. The film is directed, edited, and scored by VLM.
Added on: August 25, 2022
O LUNA
O, LUNA is a surreal, live-action dreamscape of ocular symbols, echoing sounds, and swirling logic. The film investigates philosophical themes of materiality, metamorphosis, and "atomic consciousness" through gesture, texture, and intimacy. O, LUNA also blends together themes from ancient mythology, feminist psychoanalysis, and material physics, such as the "Cosmic Egg" myth, the Grecian "Myth of Psyche," "the Gaze," and the "Coriolis Effect." O, LUNA was created, crafted, filmed, edited, produced, and scored by VLM while she was cocooned inside her home over the global 2020-2021 pandemic with her moths at her side.Added on: August 25, 2022
CUT COPY SPHINX
2019CUT COPY SPHINX is a surreal, sculptural short art-film about metaphysics, myth, and destruction. A feminist twist on the classical myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx, CUT COPY SPHINX recasts the sphinx as the uncanny hero who endures 'cuts' across time. Shot en plein aire on a miniature prop-set with a Dewalt drill and a gallon of honey, CUT COPY SPHINX syncs philosophy, feminism, and image theory. The film is directed, edited, scored, and performed by the artist, VLM.
Added on: August 25, 2022