Exhibitions
ERIN HEWGLEY: REMEMBER FORGETTING
The Browsing Room Gallery (Downtown Presbyterian Church) / 154 Rep. John Lewis Way N. November 8 - December 19th (Reception: November 8 6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Erin Hewgley
A Landscape of memories
Vignettes of our experience
Finished and unfinished
The mutations
Duplication
Fabrication
Disintegration
Confabulation
Erosion
Transmuting
And transference…
Memory is a complex and layered landscape.
What happens to us, when you can’t remember me?
What happens when our minds loosen its grasp on the memories that compose our lives and being? Can the objects with which we coexist — the ones that bear witness to the stories composing our lives — serve as the reminder that triggers the knowing (or some version of recollection) of who we are, and how we came to be in this present moment? In that desperation to preserve, do we lose the very thing we try to keep close - obscured in replication and/or confabulation? Picking through the places and times, and the holes within, searching to make sense of the non-sensical… the lens widens and narrows between then, when, here, now, when it was you, me - and we.
This is about memory, relationships, and the inextricable intertwining of the two. An ongoing investigation - the equation that I attempt to solve each day while picking through the rubble of those remnants - of the experiences we have, the memories we keep and build upon, and the ones that disintegrate, transmute… the building, the chaos, the survival, the dismantling, the falling apart. The cycle begins again and again, until it passes on into the remnants of our memories and the disintegration therein.
This is about the people we have lost - those who still inhabit this physical plane, and those who have transcended it. Sitting with that loss and those spaces left to fill. Trying to make sense of it, to assign meaning to those feelings, and grappling with ones that defy meaning - those that we are left to accept. Trying to make sense of the nonsensical. Remembering and forgetting...
About the artist: Erin Hewgley is a multi-disciplinary sculptor based in Nashville, TN. She received her BA in Art from Pitzer College and an MFA in Sculpture from The Ohio State University. The materials and processes she explores are conceptually rooted in the exploration of our shared human experience.
Image Info: Lost in Translation (Doorknobs Pile), Plaster, silicone, 36 x 36 x 36 in.
