Hashimoto Contemporary is happy to current Tracing Shadows, a solo exhibition by Boston-centered artist Genevieve Cohn. The exhibition will be Cohn’s inaugural solo presentation at Hashimoto Modern.
Tracing Shadows tells the story of a local community of girls that exist in an imagined earth, in which they only live for a single rotation of the earth on its axis. Creating on this imagined mythology, the figures depicted in the paintings attempt to report a light-weight that will only be knowledgeable after in advance of it slips absent. Dwelling in a earth that has this special encounter of gentle, the females devote their existence trying to far better fully grasp their globe and units that composition it. In lots of of the paintings, ladies are depicted referencing, tracing, or recording shadows. The shadow is in the long run transformed into an experience that is a lot more stable and tangible than that of the sun, boosting inquiries of truth vs. reality, contemplating the position where by fact and fact appear together and the place they crack aside.
Pulling from several sources, Cohn’s inspiration is rooted in the Women’s Land Military, the historical past and imagery of witches and witchcraft, and literary fiction. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, The Entire Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, A Limited Historical past of the Shadow by Victor Stoichita and the small tales of Einstein’s Desires by Alan Lightman also formed this system of get the job done.
Tracing Shadows speaks to the shared ordeals of groups of people, and the makes an attempt to question, report and realize that shared practical experience. In this imagined universe, the ladies born at various times of working day produce shared information and custom, so that those people born afterwards in the light can start out wherever individuals before them remaining off, speaking to our human record of storytelling and fascination in scientific experiments.
About her get the job done, the artist states, “My paintings task possible communities of girls by drawing from both of those a historic and imaginative previous, present, and upcoming. My paintings acknowledge and mirror a globe where ability is derived from collaboration, self-endowed agency and connection with the organic earth. I take into account thoughts of selection, adornment, attractiveness, and alternative as the figures inside of the worlds of my function build areas that engage thoughts of ritual and observe.”
Keep tuned to our 8-page characteristic on the is effective of Genevieve Cohn in our Wintertime Quarterly.
