Victoria Fu, Bubble Over Green, 2015

On View at the Café: Victoria Fu

– By Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, curatorial associate

Now on view at the Hammer's café is Victoria Fu's Bubble Over Green. Interested in the relationship of the body to technology, Victoria Fu creates videos that evoke a sense of tactility. A disembodied hand peels back and paints over layers of imagery that seem unending. In filming her videos, Fu digitally composites surfaces and objects from the studio with virtual spaces, turning a solid body into a portal. The depth created in these videos can be disorienting for viewers. We have become used to way that windows and buttons move through the spaces of our smart phones, tablets, and computer screens. Victoria Fu heightens this activity, making the viewer hyperaware of the way that technology has shaped our sense of perception.

Victoria Fu, still from Bubble Over Green, 2015
still from Bubble Over Green

Victoria Fu received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; an MA in Art History from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and a BA from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the IX Bienal de Artes Visuales de Nicaragua, Fundación Ortiz Gurdian, Managua, Nicaragua. She has had solo exhibitions at the University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine (2014); Marginal Utility, Philadelphia (2013); Anderson Hall Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2013); Savannah College of Art + Design, Georgia (2009); and Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (2007). Currently, she has a solo exhibition at the Center for Ongoing Research & Projects in Columbus, Ohio.