3-A, 3-B Gallery, CICA Museum
July 30 – August 17, 2025
2025.7.30 – 8.17
three pounds of flesh
thus i heard at one time what is the buddha? — three pounds of flesh, dharma streaming through the network with a diamond at each node. the stones are mirroring onto the screen. if you see the body there, kill the body which is reflecting, and folding into it-self. do the symptoms of a terminal illness come before or after the algorithm? tip your 3D-model, follow and sub or flip the switch. binary language is an interpreting machine: alive/un-alive, (some) body/no-body, tele-presence/tele-absence, and wifi/hi-fi/low-fi. the ineffable is “/”. un/bounded: no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind. “christ has no-body now on earth but yours / no hands but yours / no feet but yours, / yours are the eyes through which is to look out” and “dissolved / my mind – my separation. / i cannot describe my intimacy with him” santa teresa de ávila wrote in ecstasy/heresy. the tathagata—such-and-such—is illuminated by the ring light, like a halo as they die on live.
Norberto Gomez Jr. (born 1983, Alice, Texas, USA) is an artist, writer, publisher, curator, and educator based in Washington, D.C. Their work engages the interstices and chasms between death and technology, alongside aesthetics, horror, and media/popular culture. They are co-founder and editor of Sybil Press (est. 2013), an independent publisher of art books and experimental print media. Sybil Press has participated in print, art book, and zine fairs across the U.S. and internationally, including Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Boston Art Book Fair, Tokyo Art Book Fair, and Vancouver Art Book Fair.
