MIJU is a dialectical dance of poetic nightmare rendered by Michele Muennig and Juan Carlos Quintana. Their show at Jack Fischer Gallery entitled Effigies and Demagogues is a collaborative plunge into the subconscious of history, be it social or individual, woven into an exquisite corpse of signs from the collective depicting vestigial youth, natural wastelands, imperial dummies, and various bestial transubstantiation. History, once a tangible experience, transforms into magical reality as memory recedes into the shores of abstraction. Accordingly, collaborative projects become surveys over the loss of oneself blurring into the other, as sacrificial abandon in favor of the unknown,... Read More