September 11 – October 2, 2021
Two-person exhibition at Current Space with local artist and filmmaker Meg Rorrison
Working in a variety of mediums, both artists are concerned with personal histories, the mapping of experience onto surfaces, and the stains of memories through dyes and light. This exhibition focuses on stories cultivated to make sense of complex societal structures and the illusions, sadness, and beauty in the hidden subterranean landscape.
Interactive performance and installation, collaborative music playlist, plant-dyed secondhand fabric, thread, loose cotton, used bed linens, red velvet curtains, dried marigolds, Mexican candy, NY Times Newspaper, indigo dye, shellac, fishing line.
Spring of 2020, I invited friends, family, and strangers to share their saddest song with me to be added to a playlist. I listened to it while working on various projects that involved collective grief. The performance for Hypogean involved playing the collaborative playlist while gallery visitors were invited to hit the paper-mache tear drop shaped piñata I constructed out of indigo dyed NY Times newspaper from 2020 filled with dried marigolds and Mexican candy. Everyone was offered the treasure of marigold seeds and candy after the eruption of the piñata.
Current’s storefront window I installed How Do They Sleep At Night. The windows were lined with velvet curtains to signify theatrics and behind the curtains are tufted pillow cases and bedsheets up against the wall that read How Can They Sleep At Night, a phrase taken from pop punk band NOFX’s cover of Perfect Government.
Other textile works displayed in the gallery were from my series
Soft Body.