In the effort to find one’s way among the contents of memory (Aristotle emphasizes) a principal of association is helpful— “passing rapidly from one step to the next.
For instance from milk to white, from white to air, from air to damp, after which one recollects autumn supposing one is trying to recollect that season.”
Or supposing, fair reader, you are trying to recollect not autumn but freedom,
a principal of freedom the existed between two people, small and savage
as principals go—but what are the rules for this?
Anne Carson — The Beauty of the Husband
Rawhide is a duo exhibition by Sara Blosseville and Shia Conlon. For the show, the artists exchanged images from their personal archives, drawing on fragments of France and Ireland, where they are from, alongside found and archival material. Images pass between them, gathering new associations as each artist enters the other’s visual language. The resulting works become a shared correspondence shaped by friendship and by their respective practices of looking at the human and more-than-human world.
