autumn ahn
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solo exhibition and residency
Production support: Scott Reilly
Responding to the shifting seasonal conditions that seep into the former paper mill housing lower_cavity’s exhibtion spaces, ‘on the genealogy of forms’, reflects upon the body’s encounter with the seen and unseen elements of the building landscape. As part of a broad investigation of the practical systems that humans have invented to mitigate their relationship to the natural elements, Ahn intervenes in the building’s original steam-based heating system to create a living sculpture that produces ephemeral marks on paper. The show also includes carefully placed metal drawings-in-space in two separate vaulted rooms that use the textures and shape of the architecture to play with the position that the viewer’s body must take in order to make sense of the artworks themselves. Through this site-responsive installation, her spare objects address the energetic state of transformation and movement, offering a direct experience of an emotional charge that accompanies forms that sculpt themselves into existence.