Allegra Hangen

EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATION
 between / two skies / And a firm ground
Glitch Mural @ Ráfaga
El Progreso Dura Para Siempre
A Pillar for Whom
A Memory Held in You


FILMFAMILIAR ICONS
AMÉRICA
Technology As Memory
Glitch3 (Robert Smithson)


WORKS ON PAPERCyanotypes
VHS Glitches
Land Meditation Expanded


SCULPTURE + OBJECTS The Blue Table
Kennedy Fragmented


ERASURE POETRYNew Architectures
Alianza Para el Progreso


CURATORIALTráfico de Bondades_Kindness Contraband
Desde Afuera_From the Outside
Susurros de Virtudes Profundísimas_Whispers of Such Profound Virtues: Rosita Relámpago
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PUBLICATIONSAlternate Currents Working Group
El Progreso Dura Para Siempre
Thesis-Catalogue Visibilidades
The Essence of Trump



between / two skies / And a firm ground

Solo Exhibition
Fred Simon Gallery
June-August 2024


 The series of photographs and the "expanded photograph" that make up the series, Land Meditation, Expanded (2021-2024), focus on Folsom Point, a nature preserve in Council Bluffs, lowa that has been a personal site of meditation, wonderment, release, and retreat for Hangen since 2019.

The pieces in this series reflect the spontaneity and serendipity that she experiences each time she visits Folsom Point, and the acceptance of error in the creative process. These photographs were taken on 35mm film; due to some mechanical malfunction that happened in the camera while advancing the film, the individual shots began to overlap each other at odd intervals. This error only happened to her photographs at Folsom Point--the rest of the roll of film was exposed normally. The resulting images formed a sequence of fragmented hills, trees, and dry grass into a linear collage of an impossible landscape.

Various sections of this sequence are presented as printed photographs hung on the wall. The "expanded photograph" presents the entire film strip, enlarged and printed on a long, winding translucent fabric hung in the middle of the room. This installation is accompanied with an ambient sound piece that creates a sonic portrait of Folsom Point: collaging together the low hum of the nearby processing plant machines, wind, crunching leaves, birds, breath-creating an expanded, fragmented experience of a body searching for clarity in this imaginary landscape.



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