Curatorial Exhibition "The body isn’t a battery that discharges upon death"

curated by Sean J Patrick Carney

at The Carnegie, Covington, KY

Set along the Ohio–Kentucky seam, The body isn’t a battery that discharges upon death gathers works attentive to material residue and afterimages. Each piece is an instrument tuned to a minor key that uses monochrome, drone, and repetition to ground the senses. Moving slowly through The Carnegie, visitors encounter extradimensional traces and haunts, but also budding timelines.   

As the exhibition opens, spring returns to the Ohio River. Honeysuckle reanimates along mortar lines; herons and egrets come back; winter’s grief loosens, settling into compost and feeding the cycle again. There’s a gothic comfort in certain inevitabilities.

Artists: Manami Ishimura, Ian Hersko, Justin Hodges, Jesse Ly, Natalie Lerner and Plume Girl.https://www.sjpc.work/

Photographed by Jesse Ly