From March 12-20, 2010 the exhibition will be reinstalled in the RS POP-UP Shop at The Roger Smith Hotel.

After exhibiting in places as far afield as Austin, Texas and Linz, Austria, the Los Angeles-born, New York-based Barcia-Colombo brings his pioneering collection of interactive, multi-media artworks – an amalgam of three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional video, dubbed “video sculpture” – to New York City.

Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes is an exhibition about memorialization and, more specifically, the act of leaving one’s imprint for the next generation. While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance “cabinets of curiosities”), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture.

The exhibition includes ten digital sculptures that play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. He repurposes everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam® into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people. While making conspicuous references to Marcel Duchamps’ ‘Ready-Mades,’ he also draws from an eclectic range of other influences, from the combines of Robert Rauschenberg and the video spectacles of Aernout Mik to taxonomy texts and anatomical drawings.