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Towards is pleased to present Dear Big Hush, an exhibition of recent work by Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes.
“So I work to make myself into a seer — And let’s close with a pious hymn.” — Arthur Rimbaud in a letter to Paul Demeny, 1871.
I have often thought of Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes’ oeuvre as an ode to the surface, a space she approaches via the photographic and the imagistic. Within certain artistic discourses (particularly in the realm of painting) surface has been a concern for about half a millennium — variably as an illusionistic window, as a space marked by its flatness, or as a pedestal for the sculptural application of paint or the accumulation of materials. This is not to say that Holmes’ work is not situated within this teleology. Rather, her work takes this engagement with surface and fragments it, drawing it into dialogue with other disciplines such as music, design, and craft. The focus here is to draw attention to the ways in which material,...More
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Towards is pleased to present Dear Big Hush, an exhibition of recent work by Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes.
“So I work to make myself into a seer — And let’s close with a pious hymn.” — Arthur Rimbaud in a letter to Paul Demeny, 1871.
I have often thought of Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes’ oeuvre as an ode to the surface, a space she approaches via the photographic and the imagistic. Within certain artistic discourses (particularly in the realm of painting) surface has been a concern for about half a millennium — variably as an illusionistic window, as a space marked by its flatness, or as a pedestal for the sculptural application of paint or the accumulation of materials. This is not to say that Holmes’ work is not situated within this teleology. Rather, her work takes this engagement with surface and fragments it, drawing it into dialogue with other disciplines such as music, design, and craft. The focus here is to draw attention to the ways in which material,...More
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