Exhibitions
SHAPE OF TIME
The Emporium Center / 100 S Gay St. November 14 - December 23rd (Reception: November 14 5:00pm - 7:00pm)
Kyle Cottier, Amanda Leigh Evans, Jessica Ingram, Haein Kang, and Christina Renfer Vogel
Shape of Time is a new exhibition curated by Vesna Pavlović. The exhibition extends from Nashville artist Jessica Ingram’s (https://www.jessingram.com/) video, July, to a conceptually connected group of regional artists who explore relationship between memory and time and express beauty in the everyday in their practice.
Sculptor Kyle Cottier weaves a landscape in space in Borrowing Scenery to create a cinematic sequence. His sculptural piece is made of wooden particles that stand together by their interwovenness and togetherness. In her performative social practice work, Amanda Leigh Evans encapsulates the overarching question that permeates works in the exhibition — what is the shape of time? In silent video, 13×17: Reconstructing Memory with AI, Haein Kang asks us to consider how technology reshapes our perception of memory, time and the natural world. Christina Renfer Vogel collapses time in her studio through an act of painting, observation, and duration by staging herself and her subjects to create a series of still lives. What seems an impossible task becomes a successful system built in collaboration and mutual support.
Vesna Pavlović is a Paul E. Shwab Chair in Fine Arts Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University. Her projects examine the evolving relationship between memory in contemporary culture and the technologies of photographic image production. Pavlović exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Center for Cultural Decontamination and Museum of History in Belgrade, Serbia, Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Group shows include National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Hirshhorn Museum and the Sculpture Gardens in Washington DC; Museum of African Art Belgrade, Serbia; 13th Havana Biennial, Rios Intemitentes, Matanzas, Cuba; Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, 2011, in Turkey; The MAC – Metropolitan Arts Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Publications include Vesna Pavlović, Stagecraft (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021) and Vesna Pavlović’s Lost Art: Photography, Display, and the Archive (Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, 2018). https://www.vesna-pavlovic.com...
The Emporium Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 9-5; Sat 10-1; Additional hours: Fri Nov 21, 5-7 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed Wed-Fri Nov 26-28 but open Sat Nov 29.
