In Most Tides an Island

The four interrelated exhibitions of In Most Tides an Island took the form of a shipwrecked novel. Occasionally, its flotsam washes up on foreign shores: images, allegories and scraps of lore. In this installation of salvage from a vanished book, photographs and text fragments evoke tableaux of exile and solitude in the digital age. Seductive, disorienting, informative and allegorical, In Most Tides an Island is at once a tropical-gothic fiction, a vision of post-Soviet queer life, and a meditation on isolation and desire. Shot along Baltic, Caribbean and Black Sea coastlines, these distant landscapes and isolated figures form an imagistic salvage from the sunken ship Solitude.

Archival pigment prints, reflective vinyl, grey paint, mirror
Exhibitions at Alice Austen House Museum (2018), Eli Marsh Gallery (2017), CEPA Gallery (2015) and Noshowspace (2013)