Curated by Shannon Stratton
Curated by Shannon Stratton
Opening Reception: Friday, November 30, 6-9:00 PM
On View: December 1-29, 2007
Resisting the inclination to locate meaning, Knight, Rasmussen and Schneider explore the thresholds of living—those transitional spaces and their afterwards, characterized by ambiguity, the indeterminate and disorientation—through photography, video and installation. Although these liminal moments might be described traditionally as ‘rites of passage’, Knight, Rasmussen and Schneider traverse the more uncomfortable, psychological and mystical aspects of the in-between, where ‘passage’ is uncertain or unresolved.
Chelsea Tonelli Knight explores ideas of self-imposed isolation, interrogation and captivity in a series of videos from performances made in an abandoned house. Re-projected from inside a small free-standing room, the work recreates and re-projects the idea of interior, psychological space through a re-containment of the viewer. Elisa Rasmussen’s work responds to Stendhal syndrome, that is, sensory overload that results in psychosis, alongside work made in reaction to Stendhal’s writings On Love: a Salzburg bough of crystallized salt, which lead to Stendhal’s term ‘crystallization’ as a metaphorical term for falling in love. Shooting while in residency at Skowhegan, Carrie Schneider’s photographs capture moments of rest and repose. Through depictions of the artist in their studio or at rest in a field, these photos serve to both consider the romantic tradition of the studio and those moments between action and reaction which Schneider’s former advisor Marjetica Potrc, described as having captured the ‘post-hysterical moment.’
Knight received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. She recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy where the work for At Dusk was shot. Her work has recently been shown at the 10th International Istanbul Biennial and in upcoming exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Werkschauhalle Gallery in Leipzig, Germany. Rasmussen received her MFA in 2007 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at galleries in Canada and the United States, and recently completed a residency in Salzburg, Austria as a Hayward Fellow. Carrie Schneider earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Upon graduation, Carrie attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship to the Kuvataideakatemia (Academy of Fine Arts) in Helsinki, Finland. A small publication will accompany the exhibition with an essay by ThreeWalls curator, Shannon Stratton.
Links:
At Dusk exhibition booklet (pdf)
Rasmussen on CenterStageChicago.com
Chelsea Tonelli Knight's Website
