Lima Reporter

Gallery reception: Hinterland

Event Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022 to Thursday, October 13, 2022

Event Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location: Farmer Family Gallery

Stop by and talk to artist Caroline Turner and each other at the closing reception for Hinterland in the Farmer Family Gallery.

Free and open to the public.

FROM THE ARTIST:

Hinterland is a proposition; a speculative state of being – a conspiracy. It is an arch, a gate, and a portal; congealing time and collapsing itself into the present. A hinterland is typically thought of as the less developed land next to a port, city, or coast; but it can also be understood as the limitations of knowledge, that which is unexplored and ill-defined. In the hinterland lies opportunity: to re-imagine, to reorient, to build something new.

Perhaps there is a crisis in our current state of beliefs; in our inability to imagine a new way of being in the world. While we are busy sacrificing to Moloch, failing to coordinate at the planetary scale, it’s important to remember that it hasn’t always been this way. A compounding series of metaphysical mutations in our deep history as humans has constructed our world today. There is solace knowing that nothing lasts forever. If we created this world, then we can create a new one, too. What if we could go back to a time before our smooth brained system of exploitation and uber financialization? To a time before the invention of nuclear arms? Before the invention of reason and rationality – and Science as we understand it today? What if we could go back to a time before Christianity swept through the Roman Empire at the height of its stability and control? To a time before the first seed was sown? Before the first symbolic gesture; before an image was depicted on a cave wall? What if we could even go back to a time before the first stone was carved and used as a tool?

Of course, we can.

The future is not that which is uncertain; it is the past. The hinterland is not the sundown horizon, it is the daybreak we have yet to contemplate.

Accessibility: If you have questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodations please contact Bryan Albright at albright.34@osu.edu. Typically, two weeks notice will allow us to provide seamless access.

Original source can be found here.