Immaculate Twins (2023)

Dylan Teaford’s first installation was created for Art & Technology Studio II taught by Professor Mattia Casalgeno at Pratt Institute’s Art & Technology BFA.  This show uses pigeons and doves as a primary vehicle for probing the process of assigning meaning to subjects.While pigeons and doves belong to a singular family, columbidae, they inhabit such vastly different cultural standings that one is literally considered vermin whilst the other is elevated to a status of purity. Their differences and distinctions are a product of collected and exchanged associations and an overlap between history and memory. The works in this show engage with sculpture and projection in conjunction to question how presence is manifested. The exhibition, however, is not solely focused on the dichotomy between pigeons and doves, instead reaching out to ubiquitous and sanctified American symbols and relishing in their imperfect replications. Every single piece in this exhibition uses found objects or media in some capacity to question whether form or context determines meaning. If something’s significance comes from its absence or its context what happens when it erroneously reemerges from both?


Installation Photography by Fran Kula
Installation Video shot by Mitchell Clark