PAPER PAPER
March 16 – April 27, 2019
Arts, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
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paper paper consists of wall pieces and a site-specific installation made from an archive of New York Times newspapers Rooney collected in the year immediately following the 2016 presidential election. Using the newspapers as raw material, she tore, cut and pulpified the pages, and then reconstituted this matter into new paper form using wheat paste, pigmented adhesives and stitching. The wall works are made from a single day’s worth of newspaper, compressed into a new, frame-like form with no material at its center.
Meanwhile, from the gallery’s skylights, Rooney suspends dozens of paper strands, each one composed from many days’-worth of pages that have been pulpified into small sheets and woven together. These suspended works mediate the viewers’ passage through the gallery, disrupting their view of the walls, and slowing down their movement.
