Saya Woolfalk, "Untitled #8 from ChimaTEK series," 2014, mixed media collage on paper. Copyright Saya Woolfalk courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.
Saya Woolfalk, "Untitled #6 from ChimaTEK series," 2014, mixed media collage on paper. Copyright Saya Woolfalk courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.
Saya Woolfalk, "Untitled #7 from ChimaTEK series," 2014, mixed media collage on paper. Copyright Saya Woolfalk courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.
Saya Woolfalk, "Untitled #5 from Chima TEK series," 2014, mixed media collage on paper. Copyright Saya Woolfalk courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.
Saya Woolfalk’s Afrofuturist Portraits of Cloned Empathics Can Feel You Watching Them
How divine are these mixed-media collages of futuristic females in elaborately calibrated headgear?
The portraits are part of “ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization System,“ Saya Woolfalk’s debut exhibition at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in Chelsea.
It’s the most recent in Woolfalk’s series depicting the culture of the “Empathics,” the botanic–humanoid female species she conceived in 2008.
Learn more about this species of hybrid, cloned humans in Woolfalk’s current show at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia.
Look into their eyes, and try to make contact.
The Empathics: They feel you.