At The Edge Of Everything

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Cabin’s inaugural exhibition, At the Edge of Everything, invites visitors into a mythical landscape formed by the works of 15 artists who use obfuscation and figuration as a means to evoke liminal states of transcendence. Taking its name from an exhibited work by Noah Schneiderman, whose three figures walking in the distance appear at once hopeful and apocalyptic, At the Edge of Everything explores the thresholds that exist between reality and fiction, utopia and dystopia, heaven and hellscape, memory and experience.

For her “Gli Isolani (The Islanders)” series, British photographer Alys Tomlinson traveled across rural Sardinia, Sicily and the Venetian Lagoon, taking staged portraits of locals adorned in traditional garb and festive masks of the region. Each esoteric, black-and-white composition appears to depict not a prosaic image of people in costume but an altered reality where mythic folk heroes and specters exist in the flesh at the threshold between reality and fiction.

Lowe Fehn’s dreamlike works in soft pastel and airbrushed acrylic from her “Tempurpedic Fossils” series resist form and readability. Dissolved compositions present obfuscated imagery as if seen through a state between sleep and wakefulness. “The spirituality within metamorphosis is the touchstone of my work,” writes Fehn in her artist statement. “The force behind me is my aim to process and embody the experiences of change—reconciliation, temporal evolution, legibility of state, ambiguity.”

Alongside these and other two-dimensional works are sculptural pieces that similarly evoke states of ambiguity and transcendental liminality, from Bram Vanderbeke’s otherworldly brick chair, bridging the space between autonomous artistic manifestation and utile solution, to the uncanny candelabra from Barry Llewellyn’s “Euorsa” series, made by burning, mixing and smashing found materials in order to detach the objects from their given meanings and build an alternate reality.

Taken together, the works summon an unearthly domain where nothing is certain, opening new realms of possibility at the edge of everything.

Featuring the works of:

ALEXANDER GANEA
ALYS TOMLINSON
BARRY LLEWELLYN
BRAM VANDERBEKE
CHRISTOPHER STEWART
DANIELLA MOONEY
ESTHER TEICHMANN
JOSÉ CUEVAS
LAURENT FIORENTINO
LEO MAHER
LOWE FEHN
NOAH SCHNEIDERMAN
RACHEL STANLEY
VILMER ENGELBRECHT
YASMIN BAWA