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Untitled (Bee in Mouth), from the series First Sweet Truth 2020 Archival Pigment Print in Handmade Alder Wood Frame, 8.75cm x 7cm Edition of 5, 1 AP
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Exhibition
First Sweet Truth
28 Jun 2022 – 2 Jul 2022
Regular hours
- Tue, 28 Jun
- 16:00 – 20:00
- Wed, 29 Jun
- 14:00 – 19:00
- Thu, 30 Jun
- 14:00 – 19:00
- Fri, 01 Jul
- 14:00 – 19:00
- Sat, 02 Jul
- 14:00 – 19:00
Free admission
Solo exhibition by multidisciplinary visual artist Jessina Leonard (US) at SomoS, featuring photography, field recordings, installations, and video.
About
SomoS is proud to present American multidisciplinary artist Jessina Leonard’s solo exhibition First Sweet Truth, featuring photography, installation, and video work made during her artist residency at SomoS, supported by a Fulbright study and research award.
In this series, Leonard takes the writings and history of three female German mystics that lived at Helfta monastery (at Eisleben, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany) during the Middle Ages as a starting point to reflect on the limitations of representation.
She considers the unseen and invisible within a captured or created image, aiming to create connections between the medium of photography and the visions depicted by the mystics in their texts.
As she states, “How do we describe that which is beyond representation? What lies at the edge of our vision? For a medium that has an indexical relationship to reality, much has been theorized about photography’s relationship to the invisible. In my work, I look at how photography’s failure – the limits of its representation – might be the very source of its revelatory power.”
