Gabrielle Constantine & Rowan Howe: This Mother’s Cave
This Mother’s Cave is an exhibition of new, collaborative work from Gabrielle Constantine and Rowan Howe. Utilizing the culvert's architecture, the artists transform the cement space into a womb like atmosphere. Continuously swaying from internal to external, the walls layer domestic motifs, thrifted objects, found photographs, wheat pasted paintings and sculptures to create a sticky facade of childhood space, memories, maternal wisdoms and signals of generational traumas. Quilting and collaging materials become a sounding ground or wallpaper for the artists to build upon, creating isolated moments of material and contextual density. This is a sensory installation that employs light, sound, texture, and smell to create a spirituality of sorts, perhaps achieving the same sensibility as catching the scent of someone once known in a new place, transporting you to an embedded memory, if only for a moment.
With-in this mind, nest, womb, shelter, home, cave, Constantine and Howe intertwine a spectrum of what typifies mother, in order to reflect on the multiplicities that arise within this complicated role and namesake.
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This Mother’s Cave is an exhibition of new, collaborative work from Gabrielle Constantine and Rowan Howe. Utilizing the culvert's architecture, the artists transform the cement space into a womb like atmosphere. Continuously swaying from internal to external, the walls layer domestic motifs, thrifted objects, found photographs, wheat pasted paintings and sculptures to create a sticky facade of childhood space, memories, maternal wisdoms and signals of generational traumas. Quilting and collaging materials become a sounding ground or wallpaper for the artists to build upon, creating isolated moments of material and contextual density. This is a sensory installation that employs light, sound, texture, and smell to create a spirituality of sorts, perhaps achieving the same sensibility as catching the scent of someone once known in a new place, transporting you to an embedded memory, if only for a moment.
With-in this mind, nest, womb, shelter, home, cave, Constantine and Howe intertwine a spectrum of what typifies mother, in order to reflect on the multiplicities that arise within this complicated role and namesake.
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