by her own movement is an installation of photographs, light modulators, and architectural interventions in the gallery by artist sonja thomsen, whose installations present wonder as a radical way to imagine post-patriarchal futures. thomsen’s current fixation with 18th-century mathematician Maria Agnesi’s curve mistranslated into the ‘Witch of Agnesi’ is the wellspring of her intervention. This mathematical form is both oculus and womb breeding the dynamic installation. The title of the exhibition borrows from Hélène Cixous’ 1975 essay Laugh of the Medusa where “woman must put herself into the text- as into the world and into history- by her own movement.”
holding them, 2022 inkjet prints, shaped inkjet vinyl
view of gallery upon entrance
echo of venus, 2022, steel wire, 27" wide
view of gallery upon entrance
her notations (simultaneity), 2022, archival inkjet print, 24" x 30"
locating them, 2022, archival inkjet print, 24" x 30"
Tethered to you, 2012/2022
single channel video
03:38 min looping
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