Hannah Parrett: (grass crunching)

Focusing on speculative visions of landscape, Hannah Parrett’s (Cincinnati, OH) work explores representations of natural environments that hold a paradox of a spiritual geography and utopian fallacy. Through the slow process of relief carving and densely layered paintings, she looks at how abstraction can be a tool to dissolve hierarchies of knowledge. Inspired by antique forms, such as ornamented mirrors and frames, Parrett examines how these periphery objects both serve functions of utility and create a space where common myths were enshrined. This site-specific exhibition, featuring objects that represent sets, props or counterfeit reliquaries, created from hand-carved foam and shaped fabric surfaces, will meditate on different manifestations of the ‘frame’ to think about how a backdrop holds coded narratives surrounding a landscape.