Kahn & Selesnick

Kahn & Selesnick (American, b. 1965; b. 1965) Symbiosis 2  2010 Archival inkjet print 10 x 10 inch image on 13 x 13 inch paper Signed edition of 50   Known for creating whimsical and elaborately constructed photographs, drawings, and sculptures, Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have been spinning wild visual tales together for more than twenty years. Their practice involves dreaming up complex fictional narratives based on real historical events and injecting them with a wry sense of humor, while sparking new considerations of history and time. Kahn & Selesnick’s project Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea (2010) features two female protagonists wandering aimlessly in a bizarre Martian landscape that has formerly been inhabited. While there, they encounter detritus from the mysteriously vacated civilization, including pyramids, obelisks, giant balloons, and concrete boats. Comprised of photographs taken by NASA’s Mars rovers and by the artists themselves in the Nevada and Utah