“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus

Does a tree stem from one origin, or is it part of a non-hierarchical network that leads endlessly to different entities? Does history proceed from cause and effect with unilateral movement, or do the the laws of nature have greater dynamic variables, creating a landscape that shimmers with complexity?

One thing that the last few years has made clear is that we exist in a network of relationships. Perhaps imagining that other objects, places, and people’s experiences can intersect with our perception of the present can help us see ourselves and beyond in new and refreshing ways.

This exhibition brings together two projects of a collaborative nature which emphasize the multi-valent possibilities of our shared existence.

In The Possible Present, Amy Lee Ketchum collaborates with filmmaker and choreographer, Stephanie Gumpel in a triptych of moving images shot using digital and analog techniques. By using film and double exposure in conjunction with digital compositing, the work embraces chance, probability, and the materiality of light interacting with surfaces. The resulting layered compositions are not visually resolved in moments, creating odd interactions between figures and cognitive dissonance. Through these experiments the artists visually explore questions about the perception of time, and the deep nature of physical space.

The Moon and We is an installation that intertwines stories conceived by Amy Lee Ketchum, Jacintha Kruc, Leigh Werrell, and Ashley Wick. Like The Possible Present this collaboration plays with the connections and synchronicities that result from overlapping narratives; they embrace experimentation and play. The animated moments and objects of this project explore magical realism, family mythology, and asks how our desires, the past, and the unknown intersect and affect one another.

Seen together, these disparate projects speak to visible and invisible connections to living creatures and things across time and space.

Amy Lee Ketchum: Amyleeketchum.com
Ashley Wick: Ashleynwick.com
Jacintha Kruc: Jacinthaclark.com
Leigh Werrell: lwerrell.wixsite.com
Stephanie Gumpel: Instagram @Move_like_magic