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Interstate Projects is pleased to present Something Bright, Then Holes, an exhibition of new work by artists Kristen Jensen and Alina Tenser, curated by Nichole Caruso.

The practices of Jensen and Tenser bring together elements of sculpture and performance, yielding distinct results, but a similar tenor. Each artist uses sight and insight to examine how the body鈥檚 engagement with situations and surroundings plays a key role in determining a self-contained logic.

For this exhibition Jensen鈥檚 stately soft sculptures are positioned at roughly the scale of the human body and compressed by great, fractured vessels made of fired-clay. Tenser, by contrast, transposes the body into parts and gesticulations, taking the viewer past the threshold of the body鈥檚 exterior with illusionistic videos projected onto translucent sheets of Plexiglas.

Tenser鈥檚 videos often show the artist鈥檚 hand or other body parts, cut off from the whole, engaging with malleable objects that emphasize a singular lucidity. Jensen鈥檚 anthropomorphic creations seem likewise in their capacity to shape-shift in spite of their materiality, with a gravity and quietude that elude exclusionary interpretations. Ultimately the works of both artists concedes a humoristic nature but with an uncanny bend.