Anna Ialeggio: HOLE FOLDS

Abstract

Hole Folds is an exhibition composed of mediated images, ceramic objects, and sounds in ambiguous conversation. The works make idiosyncratic approaches to intimately related subjects and themes: collecting soil at sites of prairie and meadow rehabilitation; curiosity about the aesthetics and politics of repair as a framework for art-making; images as very flat sculptures (the map might not be the territory but it is a very lively place all the same); ecological reclamation, wild clay bodies, and the legacies of land use; immersion in the personal archive of Ursula K Le Guin (with permission from Le Guin's estate).

Biography

Anna Ialeggio is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born by the ocean and raised in the mountains. Their work takes a winding path through sculpture, performance, and image to consider our collectively fuzzy perception of change, as each generation redefines for itself what is "natural" or "normal." Current projects braid through ecological reclamation, wild clay bodies, and the troubled legacies of land use. Formerly a Visiting Critic in AAP, Ialeggio is a new faculty member at The College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME) and a member of The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY).

Funding was provided in part by a Cornell Council for the Arts grant.