{"id":93450,"date":"2022-09-28T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=featured-work&p=93450"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:44:22","slug":"dreamscapes-finding-the-light-through-immersive-design","status":"publish","type":"featured-work","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/featured-work\/dreamscapes-finding-the-light-through-immersive-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamscapes: Finding the Light Through Immersive Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DREAMSCAPES <\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Finding the Light Through Immersive Design<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

September 6 \u2013 October 13, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

808 Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In Dreamscapes: Finding the Light Through Immersive Design<\/em>, Boston-based artist and filmmaker Jaina Cipriano constructs emotive and enveloping experiences for viewers with her installations and photographs. Through illusionistic set designs \u2013 devoid of any digital manipulation \u2013 Cipriano\u2019s work wrestles with themes of trauma, grief, and self-discovery. She curates herself and others within her immersive installations, ultimately capturing photographs of raw, intimate moments that embody her thematic reflection. Exhibited alongside her set designs, her photographs capture moments of stillness within the surrounding chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local artist Jaina Cipriano\u2019s photography and installations explore duality of light and dark<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition as a whole contemplates the duality of light and dark. The works further communicate how the two can exist together in discovering one\u2019s own resiliency, here expressed through elements of play and theatricality. This duality of light and dark, as well as play and trauma, manifests conceptually through Cipriano\u2019s attention to fa\u00e7ade, adornment, and expression, as well as physically through her construction of the installations and her unconventional perspective. She balances aspects of dramatic boldness and moments of vulnerability in her reflection on personal evolution. The photographs, and the additional installations they reveal, demonstrate a span of Cipriano\u2019s most recent projects, all communicating a continuous study of female identity, both connected to struggles of the past and growth toward the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n