because

Positioning an intervention on a materials condition – evidence of tampering – at once endeavors to adhere new import; while simultaneously obscures and co-ops extant signifiers and conventions. What traces will be scoured, hidden, or will be privileged; which signs are immediately relayed, will show? Despite all? This work is concerned less with the materials per se. Rather, an aggregate of statuses is treated as the medium.

“roulette”, 2014
mediated image scan (found), digital archival print

Fascinated by what he sees as the humanizing gaze superimposed upon select actors of performative violence in the United States and abroad, Evan Nabrit (b. 1982, Columbus OH) pictures an intersubjectivity between image, status and ethics. He earned his BA from Amherst College in 2006, and for the most part, produces paintings, objects and video work today. Nabrit is a 2014 MFA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2013 Graduate Lecture Fellow at the ICA Philadelphia.