Assume Vivid Astro Focus 5 Press Release / Peres Projects

Peres Projects is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of assume vivid astro focus with an installation of new works by the New York based, Brazilian artist.
avaf will present the world premiere of his new "Walking on Thin Ice" (done in collaboration with Brooklyn-based video group Honeygun Labs and remixed by Action Daddy), based on the song of the same title originally released by Yoko Ono in 1981 along with a 14 foot floor sticker entitled "Sick Bionic Woman" and a new wall paper based on Renaissance era Unicorn tapestries like the ones found at the Musée du Moyen Age, Cluny, Paris. New photographs, wall drawings, t-shirts, stickers and other new and recent works will also be presented in an installation that is sure to overwhelm all of our senses.
By defying more traditional ethical concerns of appropriation and authorship, avaf revels in the power of the found image and the computer age futility of copyright while exploiting the music of our own personal nostalgia. His work has been influenced by diverse artistic and cultural tendencies including unicorn and Bauhaus tapestries, Chinese and Japanese designs from kimonos, pottery, Francis Picabia, Tibetan paintings, coloring books, Peter Max, graffiti, etc. The result is often a defiant reclamation of the lost splendor in the banal and a boyish enthusiasm towards the true beauty in the world around us.