Maya Ciarrocchi

Site: Sorel is a meditation on the real and imaginary spaces left behind by the dead. In this work, Ciarrocchi conjures an image of Barbara Sorel, an author and fixture of the 1990’s lesbian bar scene in New York City. Sorel, as she was called by her friends, sold drugs to support her writing and was tragically murdered in her East Village apartment in 1999. Some of her writing remains and an obituary appeared in the Village Voice following her murder. Apart from this and the memories of friends, she is largely forgotten by history. Combining these memories with Ciarrocchi's own, and by utilizing text from Sorel's self-published book Sorel in Love , the exhibition merges language with image to reveal where the two women’s experiences intersect and collide.

Projects / SITE: SOREL

Site 2017 Single-channel video installation HD video with sound Dimensions variable, 16:9 format 10:00 minutes Edition 1 of 5 + 2APs Site is the beginning of a video and performance project that excavates the mythology of the artist’s family history and traces the impact of trauma and loss over three generations. While this work is about personal experience, it also presents a universal story of displacement and its effects on future generations. The original and deliberately non-linear text is interspersed with sections from T.S. Eliot's epic poem, The Waste Land, which is said to express Eliot’s disillusionment with the post-WWI generation and influx of Jewish immigrants fleeing Eastern Europe. Elia Braca Rose’s story, which bookends the total narrative, is also a story of loss. Her death coincided with Ciarrocchi leaving Westbeth, a building and community she had lived in for nearly 30 years.

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Projects / SITE

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A Greater Plan (2017)

Projects / A GREATER PLAN

A Remedy for a Constitutional Crisis

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Projects / FREI

Overburden (2012)

Projects / OVERBURDEN

I'm Nobody! Who Are You? New York Live Arts (2012)

Projects / I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?

Violet Hour (2009)

Projects / VIOLET HOUR

Death BY water (2009)

Projects / DEATH BY WATER