CCNY | Vague Storytelling | Curated by Leslie Grant and Grant Willing

To consider place: a vague storytelling; a non-definitive portrayal; a shifting sense of authenticity; sentimentality questioned. The works of Pierre Le Hors, Florian Göttke & Rebecca Sakoun, Niels Stomps, and Wytske van Keulen, surround the idea of myth and place. Each artist focuses on a place and contextualizes it through events or circumstances relevant to the environment. The photographs depict an allusionary understanding of how the landscape metaphysically affects the way life exists in these realms.

Pierre Le Hors’ Esopus Island documents a remote island on the Hudson River where Aleister Crowley allegedly lived for a month in 1918. During this time spent, Crowley claimed to have experienced parts of his previous lives through deep meditation. Florian Göttke & Rebecca Sakoun retell their experiences on Baffin Island through recreation in the studio. This is a reliving: an exploration of the past in the present. Wytske van Keulen’s Anderz, Saskia, 2012, documents two individuals who for different reasons have chosen to live as outsiders to modern society, and their close surroundings. With the French Pyrenees as her backdrop, van Keulen brings together Anderz, who lives in solitude high up in the mountains without electricity or any luxury, and Saskia, who cannot find a place to settle down and keeps on moving around searching for some peace of mind. Niels Stomps’ 83 Days of Darkness considers an entire town’s attempt to alter how nature affects the overall mood of the place. For three months, this small town in the Alps receives no natural sunlight due to the looming mountain peaks. For the past four years, a mirror has been placed on a nearby mountainside in order to reflect sunlight and bring illumination to the shadowed town.

– Leslie Grant and Grant Willing

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