Arts + Literature Laboratory presents A House in the Clouds, an MFA thesis exhibition by Kate Davidson, from Tuesday, March 19, 2024 through April 20, 2024. Tomkiw is a recipient of the 2024 ALL Prize, awarded to graduating MFA students at the Universitiy of Wisconsin-Madison.
A reception for current exhibitions, including artist talks by ALL Prize winners Claire Tomkiw and Kate Davidson, will be held Thursday, April 11, 2024 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Exhibition Statement:
Hovering between the real and imagined, the functional and fictional, A House in the Clouds considers our relationship with architecture and the spaces that surround us. What does it mean to build ourselves into a place, put down roots, or see shifts over time? How do these changes affect our feelings of driftlessness or connection?
Laid out as four overlapping, interwoven installations, this exhibition explores the ways we influence and are correspondingly influenced by our built environment. Drawn from quiet and sometimes invisible background elements of our architecture like HVAC currents, cast shadows, and the view from the windows, each piece introduces questions and curiosity, motion and magic into our daily landscape. From a field of floating kite forms and their tethered shadows to shelves of experiments and sketches, this work is a recognition of the many ways our spaces come alive around us.