I’m delighted to share the 36 page catalogue resulting from my recent solo exhibition, Embrace at Our Neon Foe in May 2021.
"… Over the past few years, the otherwise overlooked queendom of fungi has materialised in the collective popular imagination as both multifarious and bewildering. We are coming to understand that in this time of ecological crisis our futures are deeply and immutably entangled with the fate of fungal worlds as symbionts, decomposers and co-creators. In Fries’ work she draws us into noticing these complex entanglements, by asking us to slow down and pay attention to different kinds of existences and temporalities … Contemplating how multispecies entanglements can co-exist and navigate these difficult times collectively, is both urgent and transformative. Allow yourself to dissolve into this connectedness, to dissolve into the continuum. …"
- Alia Parker, extract from Embrace exhibition essay
Accompanying the generous exhibition essay by Alia Parker, and my artist statement, is a collection of photographs - by Ellen Dahl, Bee Elton and myself - documenting how the fungi sculptures grew and changed during the exhibition. This post-exhibition catalogue has been carefully designed by Sara Morawetz to give you a rich experiential sense of Embrace. Thanks also to Claire Carpenter for their help with installation, Leisa Sage for construction assistance and Kate Brown for her support at Our Neon Foe.
You can view or download the catalogue as a pdf here and from the ‘Catalogues’ page on my website www.kathfries.com
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