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Casid. The 44 page catalog can be ordered from Tibor de Nagy Gallery Agents of Change — Jo-ey Tang Joy Episalla’s foldtograms—homonym of photograms, photographic prints produced from the darkroom process of camera-less photography—are agents of change. Sheets and rolls of photographic papers are first exposed to—corralled with and contend with— light. They are then submerged in photo chemical baths in what Episalla calls “the wrong order,” against the standard darkroom sequence of developer-stop-fix-wash. As the neologism of foldtograms suggests, each print is a pliant forward motion of articulation and re-articulation, of what the future holds, and holding within it, its futures. During and after exposure to light and photographic chemicals, Episalla performs various actions of folding, creasing, and manipulating the paper. She routes the liquid chemicals through their undulation in trays and troughs. The paper is then further transformed during its various stages of wetness and dryness, through additional folds and creases, and by challenging the paper’s structural integrity beyond its surface, revealing its substrates through compressing, cracking, and singeing the paper, as well as buffing its matte surface or dulling its sheen. It was not and never will be a blank slate. Foldtograms seep in between states, engaging the mutability of the paper itself. Witness the wrangling, entangling, and wrestling of time and material-wrought invocations: flashes, fleshes, synapses, lightnings, blood vessels, tributaries, rivulets, parched lands, cellular mapping, pauses, thought processes, moods, still frames, composites, scenarios, energy fields, temperature changes, flatness, volume, wet patches, and dry spaces. foldtogram (35'2.5” x 44"- August 2018) further pushes its limit as a static work. Made from an entire roll of photographic paper, it occupies and works with space. It morphs from one exhibition instance to the next. It has spanned the wall, laid flat askant on the ground, folded onto itself, as well as installed half hinged on the wall and draped onto the ground—a scene that suggests something about to happen, or an aftermath where something might happen once again. Rather than being in limbo, it sits in a limbic state. Each instance is to be considered on its own terms and altogether as interrelated shifts, as proofs of life and of living. The iterations tether the what-happened and the what’s-next to make legible a present that stays put, for now. The thin thickness of the paper can hold an expanse, “carrying its histories,” as Episalla states, where “each iteration is a new future.” They are propositional, and make relations their mode of being; opening out, in, and to—making space within space, making time within time, and making do with what we have and more than what we are given. Unsettling permanence, they insist on the ever-shifting. Incantography — Jill H. Casid “She doth teach the torches to burn bright.” It’s a line I’ve long been wanting to redirect. Poached from the relentless march of cis-heterosexism and white supremacy and redelivered to the dispossessed, the not at all merely metaphorical teaching of a how-to of still burning bright speaks to the vital importance—dare I say genius—of an art that wilds photography’s torchings—its writing with the heat and blaze of light— for queer and trans* thrivings. What we think of as photography took its name from the volatile actions of light that make the sunburn’s inflamed contours a reminder that photography’s environmental origins are also still right here on a fragile earth with its bandages off. As we live our dying on a dying planet with our camera phones mainlined into our nervous system, the photographic no longer merely mediates but rather pervades, sweating the glands of our dailiness but without release. Under this dark sun, what is the process for burning bright rather than burning out? What are the ways to do things with being undone? crack fold burn bright. In Joy Episalla’s title protocol, you can hear the crackle of an ostensibly superseded and pre-photographic power that still burns under outcast names such as those of magic or, more precisely, witchcraft. And sense the kind of alchemical power to alter matter, control reproduction, break down and re-make worlds that unfolds photography’s other side, the wild, re-enchanting capacities of an untamed photographic that carries the force of an incantation. In sonorous liaison with a chemical wetness that still feels active, vibratory, and vaporous in the pores of the foldtograms’ creased and bent planes, Episalla plies their shifting dimensional propensities to make strange attractors of the kindled residue of a photographic that we come to realize we hardly knew. Ruffling into alertness the vibratory perceptual facts of how light and sound travel through bodies, Episalla’s foldtograms quicken our senses so that we might sound out the how-to of cracking and folding without breaking. This how-to is a wild pedagogy as much of matter as of sense in feeling its way — and ours — out of the confines of the camera and through the chemical forest of our devastation that breaks loose from the hold of the punishing rules of a photographic system that turns our bodies and faces against us by making them the image data for surveilling biometric control. In their un/folding into and onto other dimensions at once intimate and intergalactic, Episalla’s radical experiments show us not just what photo chemicals and papers can do but also where they can transport us when no longer debt-bound to reference or representation, when unbeholden to the imperious laws of taking and fixing an image. Time and space-traveling to transit the currents of otherwise possibility in defiance of the trauma regime of photographic surveillance may remind us crucially of our resilient pliability. But most vitally of all, in refusing to bend to bans on being and becoming, Episalla’s praxis of a wild, melancholy joy dares to hold open, instead, a portal onto trans*formation in all its senses. Perhaps we might say, after Adrienne Rich’s “Burning Oneself Out,” that the real lesson for how to burn bright is to burn as if our radiant fire could go on burning because “there is nothing in life that has not fed that fire.” But Episalla’s incantography also calls up as it calls on a lingering liquid intelligence that pools our bright burning: after all, the hot, as we know, can also be the wet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e498f85d218a94af2ad762f/a1a17393-335f-4b1f-8df5-c7c9160c3181/New+Yorker+Review-7-5-22.jpg text - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e498f85d218a94af2ad762f/df0ca039-afec-479c-9ee8-21c6a01f479c/Two-Coats-of-Paint-Cover-Image.jpg text - Make it stand out PDF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e498f85d218a94af2ad762f/1611265678455-ZN584KYDL95FZKNULKT4/Thanatography.jpg text Joy Episalla, foldtogram 22 rc (20 16), 2017. 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