Here Loss, Lost Here
Here Loss, Lost Here was a solo exhibition at Vent Gallery in 2023, Brooklyn, US. The show was a retrospective of five years of figurative work during Kirsten’s five years in New York City curated around the loss of an entire series of figurative work and a series of psychic technologies used to try and recover it.
The show was curated around the tragedy of the artist losing 200 figurative watercolors from her studio with no answer or explanation of where they went. Were they stolen, misplaced, moved, hidden? Gallery director (and psychic technologist) Peter Hartsock thought that the large body of work had instead fallen out of psychic reality, and if the correct psychic technologies were put in place the work could be returned. The curation process thus involved psychic cleansing and anchoring techniques for curating the paintings on display, making an alchemic talisman for entering Kirsten’s studio, and identifying and entombing in lead “the heart” of “the demon” in Kirsten’s studio which pulled her work from psychic reality.
Throughout the show the audience were encouraged to engage in searching activities. This involved visually searching for whole figures and forms within Kirsten’s accumulation drawing series, and manually searching through 69 panel paintings from Kirsten’s In The Pandemic Garden painting series. The audience were asked to write down the story of how the work was lost.
Co-curated with Peter Hartsock
Show Opening 2023
