A Breath Before

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Kaitlyn Tucek & Lindsay Smith Gustave

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ALTO GALLERY

Denver, Colorado 

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December 2018 – January 2019

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A Breath Before​ combines the works of Kaitlyn Tucek and Lindsay Smith Gustave. The first two-person exhibition between Tucek and Gustave, ​A Breath Before​ raises questions of instinct, patience, and motherhood. This exhibition brings together each artists’ independent reaction to their experience as mothers, one equally stoic and dynamic, the other delicate and composed, but both vulnerable in their contemplation of the space that exists between the body and that from which it grows.

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Tucek follows instinct and records the invisible momentum of a body in space. An exercise in subtlety, she records the exquisite pain and pleasure of motherhood, understanding the ebb-and-flow between both. Representations of a monolithic entity withstands outside forces, and protects, while still understanding the limits of control. An object, suspended in time, taking a breath in contemplation of the pace and multitudes of life. Serving as a pillar or monument to life, overlooking the circumstances gained by the course of events and the resultant multitudes of an individual identity.

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For Gustave, this body of work​ e​ xplores inheritance, vulnerability, and emotional response. These vessels contain human moments: processing familial pathology and the generational self. Objects are held within specific spaces but grow to fill them. The space between object and container provides a moment to focus on the interstices connecting our physical action and our memory. These works lay bare expectations and psychoses, embrace the transparency to invite shared experience, and although intentionally contained, still flourish.

 

A Breath Before​ offers a pause for inhalation, the anticipation before the gentle nudge into entropy when the breath leaves the body and becomes something else of its own.