Student artists exhibit at Regenstein during FOTA

Two student artists are exhibiting their work at Regenstein Library through May 6 during FOTA, the student-run Festival of the Arts that encourages artistic endeavors across the campus.

Grace Hauck, a 2nd year in the College, is exhibiting a series of nine photographs titled “The Writing on the Wall” on the First Floor of Regenstein.  The photographs document each of the nine different house communities in the five satellite dormitories that will close at the end of this academic year.  As the houses prepare to move to new dorms, Grace photographed each as it is now, with its original name, and with one place, person, or tradition that represents its culture.

Cecilia Resende Santos, also a 2nd year in the College, created the sculptures “The Fifth Idol,” which are exhibited in the Regenstein entry garden.  Composed of transparent acrylic and semi-reflective film, the sculptures are half-transparent, half-reflective and starkly geometric.  The work is meant to evoke the deception inherent to human sense-perception.  As viewers get closer to explore the pieces, their shadows cause the pieces to become more reflective, and they can only see themselves.  The carefully thought geometry of the pieces suggest a rationality and comprehensibility that is denied by the shifting game of reflection and transparency.