- very very very
- touching the sky with two arms
- honest bones
- this cloud, this crust, this doubt, this dust
- not quite ever only
- ginny
- VLOG
- crocuses
- true facts from nature
- a pillow fort for sappho
Information
Writing
an installation part of the exhibition Ribbon, bell, emerald, stamp at Livart
photo credits: Katya Konioukhova
artists: Emilie Allard, Kuh Del Rosario, Ioana Dragomir, Christy Kunitzky, Laurel Rennie
Ribbon, bell, emerald, stamp, brings together works by Émilie Allard, Ioana Dragomir, Christy Kunitzky, Laurel Rennie, and Kuh Del Rosario that reflect on our connection to objects in a world increasingly intangible and disconnected from material experience.
As images and data displace objects, their meanings thin. Objects continue to surround us, but our connection to them is tenuous. Images and data rapidly circulate, replacing direct and embodied encounters with things. Meaning is not lost because objects disappear, but because attention does.
This exhibition considers the displacement of objects by information, our relationship to objects and the physical world, and how this affects our personhood. We live amid a mass accumulation of objects, where precious resources are pulled from the earth to create objects that quickly become worthless. How do we qualify our relationships to objects as they continue to both accumulate and lose meaning? What is preserved, what is lost, and who gets to decide?
honest bones attempts to aestheticize construction materials, making them precious.