Isolation Room/Galery Kit: Saturday, 22 June 2013
Sarrita Hunn and Ryan Thayer: Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
June 22 - August 8, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 22, 6pm-8pm
It is Summer again so hit the garden and enjoy the photosynthesis. Perhaps the more advanced horticultural practitioners among you will also grow your own food or even develop new breeds of flowers and plants. Sarrita Hunn and Ryan Thayer are doing something just like that with their synthesis of biology and photography. Long before the now notorious GM “Frankenfood” of Monsanto Corp, came the benign agricultural practice of grafting plant stems. Separate species of plants spliced together to keep samples alive for later replanting. In the virgin soil of this collaboration between Hunn and Thayer, Isolation Room/Gallery Kit will host a grafted plant sculpture made with a collaboratively built pot base and macramé weaved hanger that resembles the helix of DNA. The duo’s interest lies in the formal qualities of grafted plants as a metaphor for photography (light drawings). A photograph captures a vanished moment in time, but is also experienced in the present tense, with the promise that the image has a future. Plant grafting preserves genetic legacies from the past that are designed to re-germinate the future. Here, all these associations are condensed into a handcrafted object.
Hours: By appointment only.
ISOLATION ROOM / GALLERY KIT
5723 DEWEY AVE.
ST. LOUIS MO 63116
gallerykit@gmail.com
www.isolationroom-gallerykit.com
June 22 - August 8, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 22, 6pm-8pm
It is Summer again so hit the garden and enjoy the photosynthesis. Perhaps the more advanced horticultural practitioners among you will also grow your own food or even develop new breeds of flowers and plants. Sarrita Hunn and Ryan Thayer are doing something just like that with their synthesis of biology and photography. Long before the now notorious GM “Frankenfood” of Monsanto Corp, came the benign agricultural practice of grafting plant stems. Separate species of plants spliced together to keep samples alive for later replanting. In the virgin soil of this collaboration between Hunn and Thayer, Isolation Room/Gallery Kit will host a grafted plant sculpture made with a collaboratively built pot base and macramé weaved hanger that resembles the helix of DNA. The duo’s interest lies in the formal qualities of grafted plants as a metaphor for photography (light drawings). A photograph captures a vanished moment in time, but is also experienced in the present tense, with the promise that the image has a future. Plant grafting preserves genetic legacies from the past that are designed to re-germinate the future. Here, all these associations are condensed into a handcrafted object.
Hours: By appointment only.
ISOLATION ROOM / GALLERY KIT
5723 DEWEY AVE.
ST. LOUIS MO 63116
gallerykit@gmail.com
www.isolationroom-gallerykit.com
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