For the exhibition Milky Seas , Biocca has created an environment wherein the viewer is instantly pulled into an unpredictable narrative. The exhibition explores and challenges the inside/outside barriers of perception between subject and object. Once in-situ, the viewer no longer possesses a passive watchful gaze, but instead becomes integrated into the story as a kind of collective consciousness slips and weaves itself through the membranes of the gallery space.

Upon entering the space, a humanoid house-like sculpture snores heartily, filling the space with gentle sounds of sleep. It becomes apparent the sleepy figure is also slowly flooding its surroundings with saliva, ready to lap at our shoes and perhaps wash us away at any moment. The liquid permeates through the space, anchoring us together in the present, to an entirely collective experience.

Not far away, we happen upon a lively conversation we aren’t entirely sure we are meant to hear. Two candidly aging ladies, their figures of which are made up of a variety of materials soft and solid, cackle and screech freely at one another for a time. Their exaggeratedly long limbs and wry facial expressions allude to a playful kind of jeering, joke-telling, or rousing of whomever comes within earshot. Not unlike an excited crowd yelling the slogans of their favorite sports team or politician, the two mimic aggressive battle cries and shouts, usually meant to intimidate one’s opponent or enemy. Surrounding them, more mischievous figures dance and leap freely throughout the space.

This activel and frenzied scene is soon disrupted by an impending sound; the approaching footsteps of an authority perhaps ready to tread boldly into the setting, sullying the floor with their hefty boots and punishing our rowdy protagonists.

When I woke up I realized I’d been drooling on your arm

you didn’t mind, or even wipe it away

It just got absorbed into you after a while

Text by Christina Gigliotti