FOLDED TIME

About

In Folded Time, Colleen Maynard and Sarah Sudhoff examine the compounding and unspooling of deep time and process via performance, drawing, photography and collage. Their interests overlap in both specific physical processes — rituals and customs surrounding death and unique innovations of organisms — and philosophical queries into ways biology, extinction, human mortality and traditions interweave and impact each other.

Colleen Maynard is a visual artist and writer who considers analog drawing as her idiom of computing, writing, and mark making that grounds her in the physical world. She uses collage to evoke the application of modern day human advances, in the service of stewardship and/or colonialism, on a very old planet established well before us. Through this language of detailed mark-making and layered paper, she considers the origins of marine life, from the tiniest diatoms (algae photosynthetic microorganisms that live in oceans, waterways and soil) to chemosynthetic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and their alien-like ecology. Although these two organisms harness energy in opposite ways, they each have a common ability to generate power and support healthy ecosystems.

Sarah Sudhoff is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. Utilizing socially engaged and participatory actions, she explores the intimate themes of motherhood, illness, vulnerability, and mortality through her gendered, bodily, and lived experiences. Her series Leaving-while-keeping serves as an act of love and embodies reverence to honor the dead, known and unknown. Sudhoff’s previous works surveyed details of textiles marked by the passing of human life as well as artifacts, such as medical implants, that remain after the cremation process. For Sudhoff, death is like any other process, experienced by all living things, therefore worthy of our equal wonder and attention. Beginning on the steps of the one-room Beacon Church in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Sarah invites the viewer to observe the full scene. Inspired by Victorian mourning pageantry and practices, Sudhoff marks her time by unspooling bolts of cerulean, peach, and ruby fabrics, creating a pathway forward. In a private performance, using movement as a form of somatic healing and celebration, Sudhoff weaves the jewel-toned ribbons between headstones, performing a dance for, and with, the deceased.

Exhibition Dates:  Friday, October 4 – Saturday, November 2, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4th, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 12-6pm  

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