Hashimoto Modern day is happy to present Tracing Shadows, a solo exhibition by Boston-primarily based artist Genevieve Cohn. The exhibition will be Cohn’s inaugural solo presentation at Hashimoto Modern day.
Tracing Shadows tells the tale of a group of girls that exist in an imagined globe, in which they only reside for just one rotation of the earth on its axis. Building on this imagined mythology, the figures depicted in the paintings attempt to report a light that will only be skilled once before it slips away. Living in a entire world that has this special encounter of gentle, the women of all ages dedicate their lifestyle making an attempt to better recognize their planet and techniques that composition it. In numerous of the paintings, women of all ages are depicted referencing, tracing, or recording shadows. The shadow is in the end transformed into an expertise that is extra reliable and tangible than that of the solar, raising queries of truth vs. actuality, thinking about the issue the place real truth and actuality occur with each other and the place they split aside.
Pulling from several sources, Cohn’s inspiration is rooted in the Women’s Land Army, the background and imagery of witches and witchcraft, and literary fiction. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, The Full Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, A Quick Record of the Shadow by Victor Stoichita and the brief stories of Einstein’s Goals by Alan Lightman also formed this human body of function.
Tracing Shadows speaks to the shared ordeals of teams of folks, and the attempts to question, file and comprehend that shared experience. In this imagined universe, the ladies born at distinct situations of day generate shared awareness and tradition, so that people born later in the light-weight can start off where by these in advance of them remaining off, speaking to our human history of storytelling and interest in scientific experiments.
About her operate, the artist states, “My paintings job feasible communities of women by drawing from each a historic and imaginative earlier, current, and upcoming. My paintings accept and reflect a entire world where by electric power is derived from collaboration, self-endowed agency and connection with the natural globe. I take into account tips of collection, adornment, beauty, and option as the figures within the worlds of my work build spaces that engage strategies of ritual and apply.”
Stay tuned to our 8-webpage feature on the will work of Genevieve Cohn in our Winter Quarterly.