Hashimoto Fresh is happy to give Tracing Shadows, a solo exhibition via Boston-based artist Genevieve Cohn. The exhibition will likely be Cohn’s inaugural solo presentation at Hashimoto Fresh.
Tracing Shadows tells the tale of a group of girls that exist in an imagined international, by which they just are living for one rotation of the earth on its axis. Development in this imagined mythology, the figures depicted within the artwork try to report a gentle that may most effective be skilled as soon as sooner than it slips away. Dwelling in a global that has this distinctive revel in of sunshine, the ladies devote their existence making an attempt to raised perceive their international and programs that construction it. In lots of the artwork, girls are depicted referencing, tracing, or recording shadows. The shadow is in the end remodeled into an revel in this is extra forged and tangible than that of the solar, elevating questions of fact vs. truth, considering the purpose the place fact and truth come in combination and the place they smash aside.
Pulling from more than a few assets, Cohn’s inspiration is rooted within the Girls’s Land Military, the historical past and imagery of witches and witchcraft, and literary fiction. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, The Entire Cosmicomics via Italo Calvino, A Quick Historical past of the Shadow via Victor Stoichita and the fast tales of Einstein’s Goals via Alan Lightman additionally formed this frame of labor.
Tracing Shadows speaks to the shared studies of teams of other people, and the makes an attempt to query, report and keep in mind that shared revel in. On this imagined universe, the ladies born at other instances of day create shared wisdom and custom, in order that the ones born later within the mild can start the place the ones sooner than them left off, talking to our human historical past of storytelling and hobby in clinical experiments.
About her paintings, the artist states, “My artwork venture conceivable communities of girls via drawing from each a ancient and imaginative previous, provide, and long run. My artwork recognize and replicate a global the place energy is derived from collaboration, self-endowed company and reference to the flora and fauna. I imagine concepts of assortment, adornment, attractiveness, and selection because the figures throughout the worlds of my paintings assemble areas that interact concepts of formality and apply.”
Keep tuned to our 8-page function at the works of Genevieve Cohn in our Iciness Quarterly.