Alternator exhibition essays respond to the artworks presented through our Main Gallery exhibition series, and add another layer of interpretation to the exhibitions on view. These essays take a variety of forms: formal essays, Q&As with the artist, interpretive responses, and other types of creative writing pieces.
Read the essay supporting our current exhibition below, or review the essay archive going back to 2019.
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In this interpretive essay, Aly K. Benson explores how light shapes memory, identity, in Krystle Silverfox’s exhibition low-rez. Through digitally distorted images and light-based sculpture, she critiques colonial erasure, reflects on technological advancements, and celebrates the resilience of land, story, and culture, revealing how ancestral and synthetic worlds intertwine.
Read More'(un)resolving liminality', an interpretive essay on Jordan Hill’s exhibition, The Missing Distance, written by Aly K. Benson.
In an evergrowing world, with each passing chance for advances to take over, we as a people expand our abilities, and our minds have no option but to choose a narrowed lane of focus. To better state, yet paradoxically: as the world gets bigger, it gets smaller.
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