Curator: Erandy Vergara-Vargas
OBORO is pleased to present an online group exhibition curated by Erandy Vergara-Vargas and featuring the work of Lindsay Dawn Dobbin, Greg Lasky, Sally McKay and Lorna Mills, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, and Michèle Pearson Clarke.
With the pandemic, all sorts of things fractured or broke, including personal relations and a sense of control over our lives. This selection of contemporary artworks is a personal invitation from the curator to share intimate objects, feelings and experiences, and to reflect on what has happened and what is yet to happen.
The selected artworks deal with intimacy and forms of rupture. Some works directly engage broken objects or relationships (Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s Fragments of Rosalie and Michèle Pearson Clarke’s Handmade Mountain). One is inspired by pandemic grief (Sally McKay and Lorna Mills’ Boost Presume I’m Gonna Breathe Grieved). One conveys difficult emotions made common in the pandemic (Greg Lasky’s Untitled). Still another evokes the mental space opened after a storm, when we reach a new state and accept what is—ahead and around us (Lindsay Dawn Dobbin’s Arrival).
Animation: Sally McKay and Lorna Mills, Boost Presume I’m Gonna Breathe Grieved, 2021.
