Exhibition

BERNADETTE CORPORATION

8th Floor

Bernadette Corporation, Installation view, Greene Naftali, New York, 2023

The cosmos’ contents fell out from something once smaller than a coin.

(At first there was only energy, then came matter; a single force broke apart into four distinct ones; etc. as the whole thing expanded outwards.) =

There’s conservation in this set––all of this stuff is continuously interchanging and interpenetrated.

A particle exists at different locations at once, in a blur form. Only when you go to measure it does one location step up as being real. =

Progressively, science’s breakthroughs discover that all this stuff packs up again.

Stuff, forces thought to have no relation are discovered to be the parts of one or the same thing.

Progressively equations are simplified, reduced.

Bernadette Corporation
Furious Flamez of Desire, Erasable
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker
84 x 192 x 5/8 inches (213.4 x 487.7 x 1.6 cm)

Bernadette Corporation, Installation view, Greene Naftali, New York, 2023

Bernadette Corporation, Prayer/Spell, 2023 (detail)

There are coins in the show. A cosmos of them. Round things. That recently have taken a sharp tumble in value. Arrayed thus, what futures can be seen in them?

Glyph penny plinths are procession owning the past… multi-panel wall works are eternal present escaping flash.

There are fields of eraseboard, that in their whiteness contain all possible markings. Some one will appear there, impermanently.

Past, present, future are all here at once.

A massive amount of energy exists in a tiny bit of matter.

Packing it back up reverts to the energy form.

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Bernadette Corporation, Installation view, Greene Naftali, New York, 2023

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 1
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, dimes, pennies
40 1/5 x 18 x 22 inches (109.2 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 10
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, dimes, pennies
45 x 18 x 22 inches (114.3 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 1
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, dimes, pennies
40 1/5 x 18 x 22 inches (109.2 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 10
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, dimes, pennies
45 x 18 x 22 inches (114.3 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation, Penny Prayer Plinth 1, 2023 (detail)

Bernadette Corporation, Installation view, Greene Naftali, New York, 2023

Bernadette Corporation, Penny Prayer Plinth 4, 2023 (detail)

Bernadette Corporation, Penny Prayer Plinth 5, 2023 (detail)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 6
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
41 1/4 x 18 x 22 inches (104.8 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 5
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
44 x 18 x 22 inches (101.6 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 6
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
41 1/4 x 18 x 22 inches (104.8 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 5
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
44 x 18 x 22 inches (101.6 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation, Penny Prayer Plinth 7, 2023 (detail)

Bernadette Corporation, Installation view, Greene Naftali, New York, 2023

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 8
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
44 1/2 x 18 x 22 inches (113 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 7
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
40 1/10 x 18 x 22 inches (101.9 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 8
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
44 1/2 x 18 x 22 inches (113 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Penny Prayer Plinth 7
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker, pennies
40 1/10 x 18 x 22 inches (101.9 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Bernadette Corporation, Penny Prayer Plinth 8, 2023 (detail)

Bernadette Corporation, Penny Prayer Plinth 9, 2023 (detail)

Bernadette Corporation, Installation view, Greene Naftali, New York, 2023

Bernadette Corporation
Diagram (World’s End, Erasable)
, 2023
MDF, markerboard laminate, dry erase marker
84 x 144 x 5/8 inches (213.4 x 365.8 x 1.6 cm)

Bernadette Corporation
Untitled
, 2023
Basketball
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (21.6 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm)

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Ground Floor & 8th Floor
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