<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2023/samuel-prater-bellver/index.html" dsn=""><featured/><pubDate>2/22/2025, 9:44:20 PM</pubDate><title>Samuel Prater-Bellver</title><exhibition_year>2023</exhibition_year><exhibition_title>Annual Exhibition</exhibition_title><exhibitor_name_first>Samuel</exhibitor_name_first><exhibitor_name_last>Prater-Bellver</exhibitor_name_last><exhibitor_department>Fine Arts</exhibitor_department><exhibitor_portfolio>https://instagram.com/pigfridge</exhibitor_portfolio><exhibitor_bio><p>I explore an alternate reality where the laws of nature and magic are inexorably tied. All the pieces I make take place or are tangentially related to this alternate reality that doesn’t seem to exist or function inside of our understanding of space and species. I am particularly interested in the transmutation of impossible, illegible information. There is an inevitable change that occurs when images are shifted from <em>without</em> into our perception. The shift manifests itself in the form of artifacts, anthropological items that embrace craft techniques, and obsolescent semiotics in a way that is both contemporary and archaic.</p>
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