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Something Reassuringly Hopeless

Gianna Dispenza and Sam Bornstein

It's hard to imagine
that we wouldn't drink in our surroundings more fully
if we couldn't sit and recollect
that collection of moments
a moment later.
But the flaws of memory!
There's something reassuringly hopeless about the way
it falls apart
and makes the impossible manifest.

In their gracefully blurred subtlety, Gianna Dispenza's drawings speak in a standard language of memory; details worn off for efficient long term storage, an essence remaining if not the essence. Sam Bornstein's images also utilize this aesthetic but they go further into a space of near disbelief, touching the moment of "Did it happen that way or was I imagining that?" which often accompanies our attempts to rest events from deep storage. Both artists render these effects in paintings as well but the scale and finish of works on paper lends them a fugitive quality that more fully anchors them to the past-tense. We'd love for you to see the show. Here's hoping.

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