Across this really tall field again in the dark
Phoebe Osborne

GALLERY III

Phoebe Osborne, *“Their voices were sheer music, so spirit-like that no human ear could detect the sound, just as no eye on earth could see their forms.” (05:12:00)*, 2021, colored pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.

September 10 - October 9, 2022

Opening reception: Saturday, September 10 from 6-8pm

Silent walk with artist: September 22, 2022 from 6–8pm

Closing reception, with performances by invited artists: October 9, 2022 from 6pm–8pm

The birds buoyed the branches until they made a choice to leave, separately together

Biological, without origin, inexhaustibly so

You are someone else

Sharp rate

Of change, We upheaves

Disparately, rocky

Road, a repeated true thing

Talking to the mark

You insist on being

The road is neon in daylight

Is our rigor of trespass

Of Our

Our our unowned, where

Does the water perceive its own

Position in space, devoted, public

Unaffiliated, crustaceous

Your voice deletes, you repeat

The message, this time in limestone

Near it but never close enough

To be confused with it

A red line tracks

Time, insisting, one

Inch per one hundred

Years, you’re tracing, you’re obsessive, you’re careful, laborious, you’re zealous, you’re overwhelm, you’re cavernous, isolated, gathered, you’re repulsed, attracted, pulling and drawing

You’re ill and alive

If a void of space, then full

Then telling

Telling salinity

You searched for “horses at night”

You wrote it in charcoal on black

Brackish in its blurry state

Like land, vocal

If swallowing silence, then sounding

You put them in your own mouth, you mouthed their words

In salinity

You say them again, you graph your devotion

To absence, you dance it

This really tall field again in the dark

Carolyn Ferrucci, 2022

“I like to stand near it, but never close enough to be confused with it.” – Renee Gladman, on truth, in Am I a Fiction? // Three Lectures on Invisibility, Fictional Knowing and Writing-Drawing, an Arizona State University lecture moderated by Natalie Diaz

Inexhaustibly so, rocky road, void of space, brackish in its blurry state, swallowing silence, all pulled from A True Love’s Kiss, 2022 essay by artist Phoebe Osborne

In recent years, 2021–2022 A.I.R. Fellow Phoebe Osborne has generated distinctive works that follow the incommensurable currents of transing and the care it generates. As the latest outcome of this practice, Across this really tall field again in the dark brings drawing, lip syncing, and vibratory residue to act as storytellers, gathering seemingly fragmented details and lacing them together as a stealth walk in the night. Osborne holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MA in Choreography from DAS Graduate School at the Amsterdam University of Arts. Osborne’s works have been presented at venues including Transmediale Berlin, Bar Laika by e-flux, Southern Exposure, and The Boiler | Pierogi Gallery, and have been commissioned by SFMoMA, Oakland Museum of California, and Lenfest Center for the Arts, among others.

View the Press Release here.

View Phoebe Osborne’s page here.

True Love’s Kiss is a listening essay by Phoebe Osborne

1 hour, 16 minutes

Sound design: Wibke Tiarks

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Public Program:

Silent Walk with Phoebe Osborne

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 6 PM

A.I.R. Gallery