Steven Leyden Cochrane: Shining Tapestry

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Steven Leyden Cochrane, "Melech House where mom died," 2018

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Exhibition launch 7 September, 7-10pm

Artist talk 22 September, 2pm

Made over an eleven-year period, Steven Leyden Cochrane's work in Shining Tapestry spans textiles, text, photography and digital media, combining these in varied attempts to visualize lived experiences of trauma.

Language and image, base units of conscious thought, break down in flawed processes of articulation and translation. Artifacts of these processes—warping, loss of resolution, garbled syntax and mixed metaphor—mimic deficits of consciousness brought on by intense emotion, illness or impairment.

The show is anchored by a new body of large-scale crochet lace “documents” based on digitally-mangled, low-resolution photographs and improvised text. Alongside works in a range of media, these aim to highlight and destabilize the precarious mental structures that give subjective experience its illusion of continuity and order.