The Welch Galleries at the Ernest G. Welch School of art & Design starts the new year with “Seeing and Being Seen” by Hannah Israel and “Service Merchandise” — a collaborative installation by Sarah Hobbs and Israel.
Hannah Israel’s exhibition "Seeing and Being Seen" considers the way we map our existence, develop kinship among disparate parts and imagine a multitude of new possibilities. Her work emerges in response to the phenomena of space, time, memory, and relationships. The multi-medium exhibition features sculpture, textiles and printmaking. Through her work, she creates traces that imply residues or memories of past experiences.
The immersive “Service Merchandise” by Sarah Hobbs and Israel presents an intimate experience that contemplates the way our culture memorializes the act of presenting objects as commodities and gifts to represent a moment of desire. The installation is saturated with images of objects on the walls, large obscure sculptures rotating in the middle of the space. The artists amplify the absurdity of our culture's obsession with objects by setting a hyper-real display under black light creating an illusion and deceptive appearances. Read more here.
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