Twin Realms is a collaboration between Katie Ford and photographer Lindsey Kennedy. The body of work was exhibited at the Lupin Foundation Gallery at the University of Georgia in October 2022.
Ford and Kennedy came together to investigate a shared interest in dimensional illegibility and impermanence as ways of prompting an unstable viewing experience. The works question what emerges in the gap between perception and understanding.
Using an intentionally cyclical process, the work blurs media divides between photographs, sculpture, and installation. Kudzu and chlorinated pools fold in upon themselves in silk forms, with slices of landscape becoming disassociated and blurred. Panel-mounted photos exude wire armatures that break apart in repeated lines. The hard and soft encounter each other in moments of draping; wire nudges aside fabric to reveal the image underneath.
Kennedy’s photographic practice echoes art historical still lifes but makes them strange. She attends to the objects themselves, altering recognizable forms to address the tension between abstraction and formal significance. This approach joins with Ford’s mutable and collapsing arrangements. Her materials bend to the effects of light, gravity, and setting in works that question the technological and social factors situating human experience. Together, Ford and Kennedy play on the boundary between coherence and disruption as they attempt to draw back the presumption of a fixed reality.
