For his latest exhibition at Shoshana Wayne, French-Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi uses his signature visual lexicon of equestrian course obstacles and skeins of multicolored electrical cable to explore the dissemination and manipulation of information across cultural, political, and technological boundaries. The photo series Evolution or Death depicts books hooked up to tangled electronic circuitry in organic analog/digital jumbles. In the delicately arranged curlicues of white cable that constitute the floor installation Rosary and the phalanx of videotape cassettes screwed to the wall in the flat, lateral monolith Black Line, material and media are inextricable, their functions inverted to create ambiguous monuments to the expansive potential and unwieldy physical limitations of human communication.

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