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What Remains

What Remains

2023

Gallery Exhibition

"What Remains" explores the many facets of identity and considers what it means to exist in-between spaces. In a world where discovering one’s identity is an ongoing process, evolving and expanding over time, this exhibition invites the viewer to perceive identity in light of life’s many transitional periods.

Transitions in relationships, health, and geographic location have gains and losses. We leave pieces behind when moving onto something different while carrying with us what we’ve collected and learned. What happens when remnants of us are left behind – whether emotional, physical, or objective? What parts remain?

Traditionally, the grid has been used as a graphic standard–or an underlying structure–that carries the content of a page and creates unity and cohesion in a body of work. Piet Mondrian’s "Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow" is a prime example of canonical artistic work that argues for a simplistic linear underlying structure of all things. "What Remains" questions, critiques, and reimagines the role of the grid in a body of work and as the underlying structure of all things. Life isn’t linear and changes in identity can’t be fit into boxes on a page. Instead, we (arguably) all experience the highs and lows, gains and losses, in-betweens and disorientation of life in flux.

Through language, graphic manipulation of the grid, and examination of a life in-flux, "What Remains" encourages the viewer to challenge their views on life’s changes and reflect on the evolution of self. An open dialogue about all of life’s unknowns–what is and what might be–the works are composed from original text which highlights how identity is inseparable from our jobs, relationships, health, geography and spirituality. We invite you to journey through the exhibition, immersing yourself in the text from multiple perspectives and points of view while contemplating life’s many transitions and what comprises your own identity.

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