Eric N. Mack

Eric N. Mack: My name is Eric N. Mack.

Narrator: For the Biennial, Mack produced a large-scale, site specific work.

Eric N. Mack: The work is a fabric collage made out of an assortment of materials, mostly materials that would be considered textiles sewn together in a composition that would then extend into the space of the gallery. A large amount of the textiles will be transparent. It's going to be very much a way of looking through and experiencing the space. But also, offering a surface for consideration as well. A gauzy, organza, or a transparent charmeuse that's taut, would then become a lens in a way, a fragmented lens that would allow you to experience the rest of the room, in a sense.

I'm going to be in a room alongside my friend, Jennifer Packer. We've shared a studio for the past few years. She's in my head, in a way. There's that natural conversation that's been there for a while. Our practices are very different just in the ways that there's a division between certain rules of representation and certain rules about abstraction. I think we both break them in very different ways. But yeah, there's going to be some interesting, I think, overlap as well as affirmations.