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Tomi Faison, First As Tragedy, Then As LARP

Smack Mellon is pleased to present "First As Tragedy, Then As LARP," Tomi Faison’s first solo exhibition in NYC. The exhibition unfolds through two of the artist’s recent works that combine cold, filmic realism with the fantastic and unhinged performativity of the increasingly politicized world. The two works appear in the exhibition using different looping mechanisms projected onto opposite sides of the gallery and separated by a wall. Faison’s practice is informed in equal parts by her upbringing in Washington DC–watching the ongoing …