McLean Fahnestock

Demarcations

Demarcations includes works on paper and video sculptures by multidisciplinary artist McLean Fahnestock. The exhibition features archival pigment prints with toner transfer as well as video loops displayed on screens combined with custom printed fabric drapes. Fahnestock interrogates culturally circumscribed boundaries with her collage-like combinations of envelope security patterns and images of the natural world.

“…This line of demarcation can be thought of as a wall, an invisible fence made visible by a surge of energy. The patterns coalesce on water vapor and exist at a distance ahead of the viewer in the landscape that signifies a point where beyond that, they can not consume the world…” — McLean Fahnestock

McLean Fahnestock is a multimedia artist based in Tennessee. The grandchild of an explorer, Fahnestock seeks out footage, images, and items that expand our understanding of place, real and unreal, and question how we process the landscape into information to obtain knowledge. Her work has been exhibited and screened across the United States and Internationally at institutions such as the Aurora Picture Show and Menil Collection (Houston), Frist Art Museum (Nashville), Black Mountain College Re{Happening} (North Carolina), Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna), The California Science Museum (Los Angeles), The British Library (London), and MOCA (Hiroshima).

**Out of Range**
Archival pigment print and toner transfer, 21.25 x 14.16", 2020

(Their) Secure World View (is smoky)
video loop on screen with custom printed fabric drape, 2019

**Clear Zone Area**
Archival pigment print and toner transfer, 13 x 19", 2020

**Unauthorized Keep**
Archival pigment print and toner transfer, 13 x 19", 2020

(Their) Secure World View (is soupy)
video loop on screen with custom printed fabric drape, 2019

**Violators Will**
Archival pigment print and toner transfer, 17 x 22", 2020

Artist’s Statement About the Work

Demarcations includes selected prints from Isolation Landscapes along with the videos from the series Secure World View. The work inserts security patterns found on the inside of envelopes into the natural world to delineate a boundary. This line of demarcation can be thought of as a wall, an invisible fence made visible by a surge of energy. The patterns coalesce on water vapor and exist at a distance ahead of the viewer in the landscape that signifies a point where beyond that, they can not consume the world. It is the perception of the viewer as to weather this is security or it is limitation.

— McLean Fahnestock