Event
Dust Prints and The FallPost an Event »
This October, Interface Gallery presents two solo installations by artists Kelli Yon and Caroline Hayes Charuk. While installed independently, the two bodies of work share potent resonances, conversing across the axis of the gallery and heightening the presence of one another.
Yon’s The Fall is a series of large, immersive photographic prints taken in a dense, decaying forest. The images are crisp and visceral, capturing a vivid sense of the cycles of life, of transition and transformation.
Charuk’s subtle, minimalist Dust Prints are quite different visually, yet similarly engage with the concept of ephemerality both through her process and her resultant images. The Dust prints are created by tossing a muslin sack full of dry concrete mix onto a wet sheet of paper. The prints capture an instant of impact, and the subsequent settling of the cloud of dust.
Each artists' presentation includes installation elements on the floor that enhance the impact of their works on the wall -- Yon presents a small video and sound element embedded in a tree trunk; Charuk, a limp, animal like form – one of the muslin and concrete "sacks" used to make her dust prints. The limp lifeless shape of the latter clearly relates to the decaying trees in Yon’s work.
The works from each presentation are in a kind of feedback loop with themselves, while also being in a cross dialogue with one another. Both comment on the cycles of life and contain a poetic quietude as well as a subtle violence.
* Printing of photographs for Yon's installation was made possible by a Loop Arts Grant. *