Volcano
a solo exhibition by Jenn Sova
curated with Jodi Darby
at Paragon Arts Gallery
On view: October 4 - November 4, 2023
Portland, OR
exhibition text + resource list
a solo exhibition by Jenn Sova
curated with Jodi Darby
at Paragon Arts Gallery
On view: October 4 - November 4, 2023
Portland, OR
exhibition text + resource list
“We are volcanoes.
When we women offer our experience as our truth,
as human truth, all the maps change.
There are new mountains.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Volcano is an installation-based exhibition of new works by Jenn Sova curated with Jodi Darby. It is an exploration of rage; a geological survey of destruction at the hands of patriarchal violence. Sova weaves connections between organic materials such as moss, ash, rocks, and flowers with research and archival media depictions of violence and survival. Her research centers four women: Ana Mendieta, Aileen Wuornos, Anita Hill, and Joan of Arc. These women lived in different times, but all share the experience of their lives being destroyed by gendered violence, capitalism, and white supremacy.
The title, Volcano, comes from both the Ursula K. Le Guin quote cited above and from artist Ana Mendieta’s notebooks where she was dreaming about new work she would make, “Do it with a size 5 feet...Do it outside...Do a volcano... Document over a long period of time the eruption of the figure...Make a figure so that it shines like when water runs down a mountainside.” This exhibition serves as a memorial, a meditation, and an invitation to change the maps.
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free pdf library :
- Speaking in Tongues by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- The Will to Change by bell hooks [chapter 5. Stopping Male Violence]
- Poem About my Rights by June Jordan
- Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing [chapter 4. In Harm’s Way]
- (Father Tongue) Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
- Rape by Adrienne Rich
- Speaking in Tongues by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- The Will to Change by bell hooks [chapter 5. Stopping Male Violence]
- Poem About my Rights by June Jordan
- Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing [chapter 4. In Harm’s Way]
- (Father Tongue) Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
- Rape by Adrienne Rich
