Anne Q. McKeown "Eleven Thousand Nights"
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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McKeown’s work looks at memories, mementos, moments left behind. Memories decay; we can lose hold and memories slip into the lost. Her images recall interactions that continue to exist in the consciousness but are isolated. They are no longer living or changing or bringing forth more. Eleven Thousand Nights is built with paper, hand made, manufactured and recycled. Pure sheets of cellulose exist after two millennia, lesser sheets crumple into dust in two decades. Here paper expresses temporality, its shift from form to dust. McKeown slices and crumples her handmade paper. It is fingered like worry beads forming wrinkles and cracks. She manipulates newsprint with water and hands crafting objects from a leftover record of life. Paper is marked by time and worry. The earth’s winds cause change; disasters throw the stuff of lives into air, into fields of space around one. The stuff of McKeown’s work reaches out, reaches up to become temporary, unsupporting steps for thought’s energy to travel out, away. One will never find the other again. Only see and feel the spinning memories of joy and pain, wondering and marveling that they once existed.
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Schedule
from October 04, 2011 to October 29, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-10-06 from 18:00 to 20:00