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on the genealogy of forms, 2024, lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA
       solo exhibition and residency



Curated by: Tony Discenza
Production support: Scott Reilly


 artist talk/ Ben Chaffee and Anthony Discenza, here
 Contemporary Art Archive, link
 show text & works description, here

In New England, there is a fifth season called ‘Mud Season’ that sits between Winter and Spring. ‘Mud Season’ tells us about the land’s mercurial thaw of the earth beneath our feet. It is not uncommon to see steam rising from frozen grounds, and to sink into what appeared to be solid road. Responding to the ongoing contextual transformations of the Wauregan building (the former paper mill that houses lower_cavity) and the shifting seasonal conditions outside, the exhibition, on the genealogy of forms, explored the fluctuating engtanglements between architecture, the natural world, and the body’s sensory translation of that exchange using an expanded approach to the act of mark-making. Through alterations to the building’s internal steam-based heating system, linear metal drawings-in-space, and the manipulation of material conventions for representations of landscape, Ahn investigates the practical systems and forms that humans have invented to mitigate their relationship to the natural elements. Through the site-responsive installations of her spare objects, they evoke phenomenological ideas around a materiality that embodies time itself as events that hold, shape, and gather time. 


resting landscape, 2024,  metal, wood, ink, 4’x 6’ 3’
a score for a landscape, 2024, metal, paper, river stone, building steam heating system, 40’ x 6’ x 8’
a score for a landscape, 2024, metal, paper, river stone, building steam heating system, 40’ x 6’ x 8’
a score for a landscape, 2024, metal, paper, river stone, building steam heating system, 40’ x 6’ x 8’
a score for a landscape (L) curve event (R)

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