Mythopoeia In Three Acts – Ochi Gallery

2020

Mythopoeia in Three Acts, Aryana Minai, Claudia Parducci, and Anna Elise Johnson, 2020
Ochi Gallery

Ochi Gallery is pleased to present Mythopoeia in Three Acts, a group exhibition on view from October 24th to December 19th 2020. Through varied explorations of the materiality, Aryana Minai, Claudia Parducci and Anna Elise Johnson’s practices contextualize everyday artifacts and experiences, abstract the phenomenology of the built environment, and engage in revisionist myth and monument making.

Rendering her paintings through collage, paint, plaster and sanding, Minai reveals the delicate edges where her memories transmute into layered surfaces, reminiscent of bodily architectures that are simultaneously sites of nostalgia, erasure and imagination. Parducci’s bronze cast ropes, some protruding from the walls, others slung over mounted worn wooden sawhorse handles– familiar objects cast in unfamiliar arrangements–linger as if to suggest an accident, an incomplete task, a morbid joke that the viewer isn’t quite in on. By casting the desert floor, or working with ash from an extinguished fire, Johnson creates earth-toned palates that tell stories of remnants–the works gesture towards the impossibility of creating an experiential index of the Anthropocene, of capturing an ephemeral lived moment within the limitlessness of nature..

Source: www.ochigallery.com/exhibition/mythopoeia-in-three-acts

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