Exhibition description:
the body as a fever dream addresses the moments in which our understanding of and presence in our own bodies is fluctuating, moments in which we feel we do not wholly exist, moments where our physicality may encounter a limbo state between presence and absence. Eija Loponen-Stephenson, Séamus Gallagher, Sheri Osden Nault, and B. Wijshijer present works that play with the contradictions and duality of a bodily presence/absence. A digital dance performance by Lauren Runions and Camille Rojas acts as companion to the artworks, posing questions around how the body takes form in gallery settings and how meaning is made in the absence of performing bodies.
Further reading:
Exhibition essay by Dallas Fellini
‘Impenetrable intimacies: the body as a fever dream’ exhibition review by Dana Snow for Femme Art Review
Archived Exhibition page on Xpace website
Quartet with “Net Interface” and “Mimic, Lake Ontario”
Performed by Camille Rojas and Lauren Runions
Edited by Camille Rojas
Curated by Dallas Fellini
As a part of the exhibition “the body as a fever dream,” Camille Rojas and Lauren Runions enact an improvisational dance performance, inhabiting the gallery space and participating with works “Net Interface” by Eija Loponen-Stephenson and “Mimic, Lake Ontario” by Sheri Osden Nault. With no one present to bear witness to their performance, their actions are instead memorialized through the traces their bodies leave in the space.