Tales of Soil & Concrete

13 Jul-12 Aug 2023

PV 12 Jul 2023, 6-8pm

Allison Janae Hamilton, Blackwater Creature II, 2019, mixed media. Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. Copyright: © Allison Janae Hamilton. Photo: Lance Brewer.

Overview

Tales of Soil and Concrete traces various artistic approaches to myth and mythmaking in rural and urban contexts, examining how these environments affect the origin and propagation of such narratives, and their interdependency in modern socioeconomic structures. With an emphasis on cyclical systems – growth and harvest, construction and destruction, appearance and disappearance – the exhibition interrogates how productive processes give way to memory and nostalgia for that which is lost, leaving physical and psychological landscapes inhabited by ghosts, which we make sense of through narrative, representation and ritual.