Of both worlds and in double time
Georgina Lewis & Marcel Marcel
Opening Reception: July 11, 2025 6-9PM
Closing Reception & Performance July 26, 2025 6-8PM
“We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed.”
Michel Foucault, OF OTHER SPACES
Georgina Lewis and Marcel Marcel present an experiment over time; using a two person show to create a speculative model for an ecosystem that is a specifically an anti-solo show - antithetical to the revered solo show within the hallowed white cube. The artists will draw on the Piano Craft Gallery’s subterranean site to make a cave of sorts, a queered, neurodivergent sensorial reintepretation of Plato’s famed allegorical space.
The show is a conceptually provocative experiment splaying a set of conditions, a gathering of the artists’ practices, a mashup of the shiny and the abject. Plato’s Cave + Joann’s Fabrics + sci-fi. Works presented and re-presented will be inspired by biological forms (pine cones, ice caves, salt caves) as well as actual biological forms (mushrooms, SCOBYs) along with other organic and non-organic materials. In this mini heterotopia, we anticipate an alchemical transformation, an upending of the status quo, a political critique–an unraveling of logic.
Trained as a sound artist, Boston-based Georgina Lewis (she/her) is a first generation American and dual citizen, raised in Amish Country (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) and rural Nova Scotia. She works across media crafting pieces that examine dissonance: what tensions and artifacts result when one or more things come in contact. Lewis’ current work references alchemy, nature, and the anthropocene, using materials such as rain, snow, sand, plastic, mold, and paper to construct images and objects that are both magical and therapeutic: provocative reminders that transformation and change can be both possible and beneficial. Lewis questions the power we invest in technology and the effect this is having on us, believing that it is more important to be whole than perfect.
Georgina received her MFA from Bard College and holds undergraduate degrees from SMFA at Tufts University and Franklin and Marshall College. She also spent a year in MassArt’s undergraduate Studio for Interrelated Media program. Her work has been presented at numerous venues, including Montserrat College of Art’s Frame 301 Gallery, Boston University's 808 gallery, Visual Studies Workshop, Grapefruits Art Space, Portland, OR, Acogedor LA, the Mills Gallery, and Boston Cyberarts. She has been a resident at the Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others, a fellow at Harvard’s metaLAB and is a Boston Center for the Arts Studio Resident. Georgina is represented by Fountain Street Gallery in Boston.
Marcel Marcel is an emerging video and installation artist based in Boston, born in Latvia.
Hovering between the absurd and abject, they remix microbial material, gifs, video, text and lo-fi sculptural props. Their work interrogates the fiction of borders and binaries in a speculative imagining of liberatory futures.
The plurality of registers in their work become a truth revealing means to tell a story and splay the production/reproduction of systemic oppression and legacy trauma.
Their studio practice seeks to articulate a theory of joy as embodied action. Marcel's work is recursive, moving between the micro to macro, the personal and political. Based in performance theory, their approach extends to the use of bio-art and food-art as material and metaphor part of an umbrella project called Post-Post-Post-Human Resources.
One mode is the use of kombucha SCOBYs (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) becomes a biomimetic metaphor for political coexistence and model for ecological balance.
The second mode is through the cake-scapes which combine experimental gastronomy, social practice and installation as a form of liberatory world-building and performance.As viewers eat the art, they become a part of the installation as performer, thus implicated in the story, dissolving the disembodied divide between watched and watcher. They perform the cake.
Similar to Marcel's other projects, the cakescapes become queered sites for political critique, radical imaginings and healing.
Currently Marcel is a studio resident at the Boston Center for the Arts, a core member of the new media artist collective called Digital Soup and new member of Mobius Artists Group, a longtime performance art collective founded by Marilyn Arsem. In 2018, they received their MFA from VCFA. In July 2023, OyG Gallery in NYC named Marcel as an artist to watch for. In October 2024, they were honored to be named an Artadia finalist. In 2025, they were a MCC grant recipient.
Marcel's name, Marcel Marcel, is a copy of a copy without an original.
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