Community screening: Friday, January 3, 7pm
Closing reception: Thursday, January 9, 7pm

Open gallery hours: 
Thursday, January 2 – Sunday, January 5: 1 – 6pm
Monday, January 6: closed
Tuesday, January 7: 3 – 6pm

Some of your underwear has holes.
Protect your bone marrow! Protect your stem cells! Plug the holes!
If you’re too slow, you will become irradiated. 
If you’re successful, win a shopping spree and compete for the high score.

Composed of soft sculpture and interactive projection, Underwear Shopping Spree is about fabrics that protect the wearer from extreme weather. Begun during the now yearly hottest summer on record, the work was born from the delirious feeling of being dehydrated, irradiated, and overexposed. 

A community screening will take place on Friday, January 3 at 7pm. Short films about the weather and the sun from local independent filmmakers will be shown. A closing reception will be held on Friday, January 9 from 7 to 10pm, and will include live performance. Full lineup TBA.

Annapurna Kumar is a filmmaker based in Ventura County, California. She is formally trained in animation, and was taught to machine sew by her mother and grandmother. After spending a year designing digital clothing for a previous short film, she is now sewing IRL underwear, soft sculpture, and quilts.

Annapurna is a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA Design Media Arts and a Special Faculty Member in the CalArts Experimental Animation Department. She is an alumni of the Yaddo Residency (2023), Wedding Cake House Residency (2024), and The Independent Imaging Retreat / Film Farm Residency (2019). Her most recent short film, Mirror Products Catalog, premiered at the Walker Art Center. She is currently collaborating on an illustrated memoir for the experimental animator Paul Vester.