Incidence
2018 SunTrust Gallery, Durham Art Guild, Durham NC
Installation, dimensions variable
Materials: plaster, fiber dye, bioplastic, hair, cotton, heddles, wax
In epidemiology, “incidence” refers to the proportion of a population affected by a given disease. How much of a population has to experience something for it to be understood, for it to be normal?
This exhibition explores the formation of collective experience from successions of discrete moments, meditating on the tensions between unity and difference that underpins psychic and social reality. The same difficulties that define attempts to communicate and make understood the experience of mental illness corresponds to the difficulty of making ourselves known to others and establishing meaningful connectivity in a culture where we are ceaselessly constructed as isolated individuals. Incidence attempts to thematize the connections between these two forms of collective isolation, creating a field of repetitive but organically varied materiality where a focus on the whole sacrifices attention to the singular, and attention to the singular sacrifices an experience of the whole. In this way, I explore the difficulties of making ourselves known to the world and inviting the world to know us in return.
Installation, dimensions variable
Materials: plaster, fiber dye, bioplastic, hair, cotton, heddles, wax
In epidemiology, “incidence” refers to the proportion of a population affected by a given disease. How much of a population has to experience something for it to be understood, for it to be normal?
This exhibition explores the formation of collective experience from successions of discrete moments, meditating on the tensions between unity and difference that underpins psychic and social reality. The same difficulties that define attempts to communicate and make understood the experience of mental illness corresponds to the difficulty of making ourselves known to others and establishing meaningful connectivity in a culture where we are ceaselessly constructed as isolated individuals. Incidence attempts to thematize the connections between these two forms of collective isolation, creating a field of repetitive but organically varied materiality where a focus on the whole sacrifices attention to the singular, and attention to the singular sacrifices an experience of the whole. In this way, I explore the difficulties of making ourselves known to the world and inviting the world to know us in return.
