Miwa Matreyek This World Made Itself at Wexner Center for the Arts

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Miwa Matreyek, a multimedia performance artist from Los Angeles, creates spellbinding, visually rich fusions of inventive animation and live performance that will leave you rapt. This World Made Itself is her latest solo work merging cinematic vistas with theater and intricate shadow play. The fantastical kaleidoscopic experience is sophisticated yet full of child-like wonder.

Its thematic journey takes you through the history of the earth, from the universe's first spark of beginning to our complex, current world of accelerated human interaction. The performance unfolds as both a panorama referencing natural history and science (imagine flipping through a vividly illustrated children's encyclopedia) and a dream-like spectacle of surrealistic metaphor and fantasy. Miwa Matreyek makes worlds beyond our reach clear and present to our delight, a visionary talent for these times.