Motherbox collaborated with Flyweight, a 1:12 scale gallery run by Clare Torina and Jesse Cesario, to put on Babybox at Motherbox. Simultaneously, Unsets, a solo show of Katherine Finkelstein’s photographic, video and glass work, was on view at Flyweight. Babybox takes place at Motherbox inside the mobile version of Flyweight. The installations were scheduled to open March 14, the weekend COVID-19 shut down New York City. In response, tours were run virtually through May 15.
March 16 - May 15, 2020: BABYBOX
Katherine Finkelstein: Unsets is the sister exhibition to Babybox, curated by Clare Torina and installed at the stationary Flyweight.
This exhibition was organized around Katherine's video, (S)unset, made using a process in which the camera lens was removed, flipped, and held in reverse against the camera body. When pointed at a light source, any light passing through the lens forms a circle. In this video, Katherine filmed a Marfa sunset for one minute. As the sun sets over the horizon, the circle stays quivering in place, fading. The video is on a perpetual two-minute loop, setting and rising, disappearing and reappearing, eternally.
The prints and objects accompanying the video were mined from the artist's bedroom. They are a meeting of found natural material, photogram prints, and the tools carved and used to create the photograms. In the darkroom, the glass pieces act as a prismatic medium between the light and paper, here, they respond the light of the video, bouncing color around the space and onto one another. A fragment of a meteorite sits heavy and sharp across the room from a foggy glass egg. Separate but connected, the works are meditations on natural cycles, layered consciousness, and communing with the unknowable.
Interview between Katherine Finkelstein and Luisa Caldwell on Two Coats of Paint