Artist: Hayley Silverman Venue: Bodega, New York Exhibition Title: Entering Heaven Alive Date: January 13 – February 18, 2018 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Bodega, New York Press Release: In the Book of Malachi and the statements of R. Shila the angel is a witness, an agent of surveillance; likewise, a recording angel in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic angelology takes account of a person’s actions, thoughts, and feelings. Divine protectors that are also observers, observers that are surveillors, surveillors that ensure the social order or other orders of support: whether monastic, cosmological, or of a physical language behind the liturgical scene. Angels are said to leave material traces or questions of their materiality. For Duns Scotus they are immaterial, subject to a physics without body, but with the place, finitude, a...