We are extremely pleased to present Saya Woolfalk's newest multimedia installation in a special dedicated space on the 5th Floor Mezzanine at Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, New York, NY.
Future Relics From a Landscape of Anticipation will include prints, drawings, sculpture, and video sculpture created for the artist's one person shows in 2019 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; and the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. They will be shown in New York for the first time in our presentation at Independent 2020.
Inspired by her own familial history, Woolfalk combines elements of African American, Japanese, and European cultures, with allusions to anthropology, feminist theory, science fiction, Eastern religion, and fashion, in depicting the story of a chimeric species she names the Empathics, botanic humanoid beings with a highly evolved ability to understand the experiences of others.
Since 2012, in successive exhibitions, installations, performances and screenings, Woolfalk has presented the fictional world of the Empathics, a highly technological race of women with the ability to alter their genes to fuse with plants. As she continues to add to the ongoing narrative of the Empathics, Saya Woolfalk investigates the utopian possibilities of empathy, embodied research, and cultural hybridity, as well humanity's relationship to technology and the natural environment.
Born in 1979 in Gifu City, Japan, Saya Woolfalk is the recipient of numerous honors, awards, fellowships, and residencies. She has presented multimedia works and performances in solo and group exhibitions at museums, galleries, and alternative spaces throughout the U.S. including the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Brooklyn Museum; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; the Seattle Art Museum; the Nelson-Atkins Museum; the Kohler Arts Center; the Everson Museum of Art; and many other major institutions.
Works by the artist are in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Chrysler Museum of Art; the Everson Museum of Art; The Ford Foundation; the Mead Art Museum; the Montclair Art Museum; the Newark Museum; the Seattle Art Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and those of other distinguished institutions and private individuals.

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