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Jessica Swank
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Jessica Swank

Jessica Swank: Muscle Memory

Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 2025, 5-8pm

Muscle Memory is a meditation on the significance of labor and the body in a time increasingly shaped by automation and post-biological ideals. This series represents an extension of my own body detached from myself, exploring how the body may become detached from consciousness in the digital age.. Through repetitive processes and actions, I think of my labor in creating this work as itself an act of resistance against the idea that human beings can be reduced to machines. While the work is not directly performative, I consider the labor embedded in the making of these works as a quiet performance. 

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Rivers Qinnan Zhu
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Rivers Qinnan Zhu

Rivers Qinnan Zhu: Thread’s Return along the Equinox

Opening Reception: Friday, August 1, 2025, 5-8pm

I come from a lineage of four generations of female artisans, with a strong tradition of lace-making in Xiaoshan, China. Lace, with its intricate yet fragile structure, carries a tension between visibility and absence, labor and ornamentation, history and transformation. Lace-making is not just about preserving techniques; it’s about understanding them as shifting, unstable, and deeply connected to the people who practice them.

Thread’s Return along the Equinox asks how traditions continue— by preserving sameness or through adaptation? Lace becomes a way of holding time, of returning through making. 

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