Science Fictions: Brittany Nelson and Gabriela Vainsencher

In rugged stoneware and luminous, scintillating prints, Brittany Nelson and Gabriela Vainsencher invent figments of an imagined history and future fiction. Slender necks and swollen stomachs taper to a point in Vainsencher’s layered photographs of pages cut from an archeological textbook of pre-Minoan crafts; recast in porcelain, these rearranged bodies rear and writhe from the white plateau of a low pedestal. Nelson’s gelatin silver prints capture scale transparencies of pages from a book of science fiction short stories. Written by Alice B. Sheldon under an assumed male name, the story...