Loom
July 25th – August 3rd, 2025

Saul Becker
Imogen Cunningham
Marjorie Dial
Lisa Di Donato
Jessie Homer French

Materiality is both invasive and elusive. Commonplace, substantive, and tactile, yet inherently expanding into immaterial realms. Materiality can be ephemeral—a scent, a shadow, an echo. Light turned to physical matter, texture and form captured in a photograph. It can be a distorted image imbued with traces of our present or past, obstructing our understanding of Earth and how we inhabit it. Materiality can be a vessel casting an incantation, contained to its earthly origin yet rising upwards, acting as a transmitter or receiver. It can be the discolored patina of hand welded spoons, each surface a slightly different texture than the next. It can be a hand-embroidered map tracing local fault lines, “earthquake-proof art,” meant to withstand a deteriorating and exhausted world. Our material and immaterial world woven together, echoing a peripheral yet pervasive something, a looming center without a trace.

Curation and text by Camilla Szabo.

Issue 42.1: Materiality

Edited by Camilla Szabo and John J. Parman

Featuring article “Beyond the Bounds of the Material.” Read here.