Exhibitions

GUEN MONTGOMERY: REASONABLE DOUBTS

Relay Ridge / 4124 McKinley St. NE February 27 - April 3rd

Guen Montgomery

Mary Oliver told us to let the soft animals of our bodies love what they love.

What if you’re always a minute away from losing the thing your animal body loves? In inferential cognitive behavior therapy, patients are asked to learn to recognize the difference between reasonable doubts and obsessive doubts. The inferential part of this therapy approach addresses the tendency to make up the wrong story from unreasonable doubts and run away with it. To make faulty inferences. After completing the workbook, I can assure you that all my doubts are reasonable.”

This exhibition of recent works by Guen Montgomery privileges feeling and touching: feeling as an affectual state, the haptic need to feel as orientation, and as “feeling your way through” – a way of navigating in unsettled times. Touch refers to the touch of ink to paper, or the longing to touch that comes from seeing an animal’s fur and feeling it resonate with some uncontrollable mammal part of you. Reasonable Doubts is about being a person-animal-mother in the current polycrisis.