BIG KNOT
Cara Levine & Alee Peoples
November 6 - December 18, 2021
Elephant Art Space
Exhibition Statement
16 months, and a world turned over, since this exhibition was initially scheduled, Levine and Peoples' return with new works containing all the new feels. Both utilize their art practices as methodologies for grappling with irreconcilability in today's world. Through interweaving practices of textile, painting, and filmmaking, Peoples' imagines surreal or fantastical landscapes. Through deliberate attention to detail and precision in each medium she is able to capture a sense of time moving and stopping at once. Levine, also working with the handmade, spent the year obsessed with our invisible yet constant and invaluable interconnectedness. Through repeated gestures, and the physical linking of objects, she displays a care and tenderness towards the materials and its subjects. They're practices diverge through visual style, but are tied through technical labor and conceptual motivation. In conversation about contextualizing the work for this show coming out of this upside-down period, they agreed on the near constant feeling of a big knot in their throats. This is the first time Levine and Peoples' work will be shown side by side.
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