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Events | International Art Exhibit | June 4 2026

LA Underground

Earth is much more beautiful Emma Penaz Eisner
june 5th
june 5th

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USA

Artist Emma Penaz Eisner
Artist Statement

In the low light reaches of LA’s Scene music underground, using zero flash, I captured these images of evanescent youth and verve to explore how the profane is glorified. This series of chiaroscuro photographs reveals the subtextual holiness of performance alongside worship by fandom and seals the numinous undercurrent of rave counterculture into historical documentation.

Curated in the International Art Exhibit at 17th New Media Film Festival®

1. Earth is much more beautiful

 

2. Heaven

3. Fans

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