Hashimoto Contemporary is happy to current In Protection of Tenderness, a solo exhibition by Boston-based artist Genevieve Cohn. Every of her vibrant work are phrases in a steady narrative full of mythic, playful ladies weaving collectively an imagined historical past and future.
The communities of ladies that inhabit Cohn’s work are without delay folkloric and grounded in actuality, taking over a way of magical realism. The chromatic figures have a tendency the land round them and each other to kind an imagined world knowledgeable by The Girls’s Land Military, feminine separatist communities, fairy tales and literary fiction.
Cohn writes of the latest work, “Figures transfer by way of layered environments, typically engaged in constructing fences, planting gardens, and crafting protecting constructions. Within the periphery —glimpses of unease that echo the instability of our present second. But the main target stays on the figures: how they proceed, how they maintain, how they construct.” Her work enable the viewer to expertise the tenderness and care proven amongst the figures from a spot of security and safety.
