The Spider Plays
COOPER COLE•Sep 21, 2024 — Nov 09, 2024
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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce The Spider Plays, the second solo exhibition by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill at the gallery.
This exhibition delves into the activities of an imagined group of spiders as they experience fear, anxiety, and the threat of violence, as well as the inextinguishable forces of collectivity and creativity. The “plays” in this exhibit are multi-page works on paper, layered in ink and collage. Text is structured on the pages as concrete poetry, with stage directions and dialogue arranged into the shape of spiders, the paper becoming the wall the spiders are sitting on.
Several sculptural elements in the space invite visitors to imagine the spiders’ world at a human scale. Stairs leading to a constructed walkway running the length of the exhibition space encourages visitors to climb up to see works hung higher in the gallery, enacting a kind of choreography where the bodies of the visitors against the wall might mimic the bodies of the spiders in the works on…
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The Spider Plays
COOPER COLE•Sep 21, 2024 — Nov 09, 2024
Press Release
COOPER COLE is pleased to announce The Spider Plays, the second solo exhibition by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill at the gallery.
This exhibition delves into the activities of an imagined group of spiders as they experience fear, anxiety, and the threat of violence, as well as the inextinguishable forces of collectivity and creativity. The “plays” in this exhibit are multi-page works on paper, layered in ink and collage. Text is structured on the pages as concrete poetry, with stage directions and dialogue arranged into the shape of spiders, the paper becoming the wall the spiders are sitting on.
Several sculptural elements in the space invite visitors to imagine the spiders’ world at a human scale. Stairs leading to a constructed walkway running the length of the exhibition space encourages visitors to climb up to see works hung higher in the gallery, enacting a kind of choreography where the bodies of the visitors against the wall might mimic the bodies of the spiders in the works on…
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