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Artist Exhibitions:
2007
Night Moves: Fallen, San Jose
Institute of Contemporary Art,
San Jose, CA
NextNew2007, San Jose
Institute of Contemporary Art,
San Jose, CA
Things Held, MFA Thesis Show,
Mills College Art Museum,
Oakland, CA
2006
ConText, A Blending of Image
and Language, Dorothy Herger
Gallery, Solano Community
College
2005
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Artist Statement for Jennifer Brandon
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www.jenniferbrandon.com
When things fall apart, they are often cast aside—abhorrent, unsightly, or painful to look at. Once gone, our memories of them change. I seek out that which calls attention to an emotional and physical falling apart, its inherent beauty and ugliness, captivated by those moments that mirror our experience. I look to amplify those qualities through the conventions of photography, video and sculpture.
Over time, an object’s marred surface reveals our relationship to it through the physical residue of touch, which dirties it and wears it down. The Unmaking of a Chain Stitch magnifies this act of touch as the hand destroys a single stitch of yarn, at times having to forcefully rip the string apart. Broken Frames, three large-scale photographs of the edges of mattresses, and An Attenuate Object, an artifact encased and hand-woven from my mother’s clothing inherited after her death, are caught between a state of disrepair and repair. Removed from a lived experience, these pieces reflect the body in time.
There are moments that mark a fall. In Falling, a series of sutured birds fade slowly in and out, caught between the moving and the still, beauty and decay. They tumble to an unknown fate, interrupted only by the unnatural hum and click of the slide projector as it advances from one image of a bird frozen in time to the next. We find these same bodies at rest in Fallen, stacked in a grid of translucent bricks frozen in the midst of their fall.
Throughout this work, traces of vulnerability are heightened for examination. Those vulnerabilities become metaphors for our own emotional and physical falling apart, pointing to both presence and absence, and speaking to that slippage between subject and object, object and body, and a record of what once was and still is.
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