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Ginevra Shay & María Tinaut - Fictive Certainties

September 7th - November 2nd

Photos by Vivian Doering

The Exhibition

What can be known through movement, is perhaps the question? An account of the sun, of waves of tall grass, the silences between steps. Movement recorded as a way to elucidate the release, and the tension, felt as you walked through a polyrhythm of insects, thinking about your decision to stay and to go; a decision made out in blue.

This leads me to my bends and rises in the dark. The evening school of my mind, where colors dance on the back of eyelids, structures of light are unbound, form is liberated. Form becomes a method, a ritual, to stir out myths and dreams. Cracks of time dart out showing how vast light (and self) can be.

Time and place as poetic measures. These works are poetic measures, articulations of the unfixed nature of time. What can be known for sure? That measures of the seemingly fleeting are creations of the infinite.

The Artists

Ginevra Shay (Washington DC, 1987) lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. Ginevra has shown nationally and internationally in various galleries including recent solo exhibitions at NO/ Gallery, Belgium; Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont; Full Circle Gallery, Baltimore. Group exhibitions include: museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Houston Center for Photography, JEST, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Present Company, LVL3. Ginevra is the 2019 Mollie Ruprecht Visiting Artist at the University of Vermont and a 2018 Maryland Individual Artist Award Recipient for Photography. Their work has been featured online in Artforum and Artnews and in print in GUP Magazine. Ginevra has lectured and participated in panels at the Queens Museum, the Oakland Museum, the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, the College Art Association's National Conference, and the Society For Photographic Education's National Conference. @ginevrashay

María Tinaut (Spain, 1991) lives and works in Valencia and New York City. Tinaut holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) and a Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA). She has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has participated in both solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, Poland, Germany and Spain. @mariatinaut