Our twice-postponed exhibition (first due to the pandemic, second due to last summer’s fire) Exquisite Entanglement is now finally on view. We are so proud of this moving two-person exhibition featuring the work of Yuko Oda and Allison Maria Rodriguez, which includes a window installation by Oda and the first four-channel video installation shown at 13FOREST by Rodriguez.
We were also grateful to have this exhibition recognized in a recent article in the Boston Globe. Correspondent Katie Mogg spoke to Rodriguez and Oda about their work as artists and activists. Rodriguez’ installation Once in a Lifetime began as a chance encounter with a beached blue whale in Costa Rica. “Rodriguez wants her work in ‘Exquisite Entanglement’ to serve as a memorial to the whale, but also to the piece of humanity that is lost when we live a lifestyle that kills fellow creatures on Earth. ‘The idea of this exquisite entanglement sort of plays on the tension that there is between everything being interconnected and how beautiful that is, but also how detrimental that has been to our planet,’ Rodriguez said. ‘We’ve been destroying and marching toward our own destruction.’”
While Rodriguez’ work is grounded in actual experience, Oda’s work is based on an imagined alternate future: “Oda’s contribution to ‘Exquisite Entanglement’ includes a series of images depicting the end of nature as we know it, as well as a surreal interpretation of nature’s resilience. ‘The work that I’m showing, it ends up being about the calamities of what’s happening to nature and then its resilience and ability to heal itself,’ Oda said. ‘It is about awakening our senses and perception.’”
You can read the full text of the article here, and please join us for the opening reception for Exquisite Entanglement on Saturday, August 6, from 4-6 pm.