Tangible Nothingness: An Unfinished Becoming

Nugent Koscielny

May 6th through June 16th, 2022

Gallery Hours - Wednesday through Sunday: 12-5pm

Exhibition Details

Every stimulus we encounter in our environments fuels our perception, our state of being  or process of becoming aware of something by the senses.This exhibition will examine  the intersection of experience and perception. Tangible Nothingness is an opportunity to  consider how our interactions within our world shape us and we then shape our world, how  we affect and are affected by our environment and by our experiences, translated through  psychology, biology/physiology, technology and installation design. 

The multi-media exhibition will be designed with consideration of contemporary ways in  which we move through our world, notice speed and time, and interact with others around  us. The work illustrates and invites the audience to consider how perception and association  are the basis for what may be understood.

Artist Statement

For me, recent times have been an adventure in staying home and being close to my family. Much of my work is drawn directly from my life at hand. During this period, awareness of the spaces we inhabit has been intensified. I have made numerous videos and recordings of my everyday life and thought deeply about the ways in which I experience speed and time, the psychological construct of memories and how these layer together within a consciousness and to what ends. I have often wished I had a camera or device to hand when I did not, to catch the moment, words or actions, as they were expressed before they faded into memory. 

On another layer, the work closely examines how we, as human beings, notice and interact with our environment. Inspired by ancient traditions and contemporary ubiquity; sundials and speedometers, random conversations, shaky cameras, the sounds of footsteps and heartbeats, the droning of engines. All of these aspects mingle together in the work to provoke reflection upon how we exist in these moments and make meaningful associations through captured traces. The goal for my work is to examine human behavior and thought and to offer viewers an opportunity to experience moments of increased awareness of their own perceptions and associations. 

Never finished, always becoming.

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