autumn ahn
artworks
exhibitions
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solo exhibition and residency
Production support: Scott Reilly
Responding to the ongoing transformations of the Wauregan building (the former paper mill that houses lower_cavity’s exhibtion spaces) and the shifting seasonal conditions outside, ‘on the genealogy of forms’ examines the exchange between materialization and dematerialization of where art happens and how we locate it. As part of a broad investigation of the practical systems and forms that humans have invented to mitigate their relationships to the natural elements, Ahn intervenes in the building’s original steam-based heating system, constructing metal drawings-in-space and experimenting with the representation of landscape. Through site-responsive installation, her spare objects contemplate the energetic state of transformation using an expanded approach to mark-making that behaves as phenomenological gesture to explore the porosity of boundaries in material construction, and whose emotional charge comes from the way embodiment sculpts itself into existence.