Recent work in Berlin-based Romanian artist Hortensia Mi Kafchin’s second solo show at PPOW Gallery, ‘Paintings Made for Aliens Above,’ supposes that human interaction with aliens is only a matter of time, though by the point of contact, humanity might not look as it does today. After undergoing gender transition surgery, Mi Kafchin confesses in a booklet accompanying the show that she’s tempted by a transhumanist urge toward further modifications. Here, her avatar poses in a Romanian folk costume, a cyborg in a barnyard. Recalling the happiness of childhood moments spent playing outdoors while longing for escape into the vast worlds pictured in the night sky beyond, Mi Kafchin recalls the past while looking with hopeful uncertainty to the future. (On view in Tribeca through Dec 20th).
