DESCRIPTION
The Space between Memory and Expectation
The interval, the space in between, is about the moments during which apparently nothing happens, but without which no change could happen. This project is another way to describe this state of stillness and transition.
These landscapes are familiar to us and at the same time appear abstract when presented in representation. The abstract image seems to be listening to you and you feel “touched” by its non-quantifiable space.
Guided from one sweeping landscape to the next not doubting their separateness in location and origin shows the interconnectedness of distant environments.
The silent and continuous erosion trickling from the top of the mountains, via the glaciers, tropical forests, sand dunes, icefields into the ocean. I am presenting the familiar and the known in an intimate way, relating to parallel realities from different locations, opening up conversations between the different (political) landscapes in which we live.
AUTHOR
Born in Germany, RENATE ALLER lives and works between New York City and Princeton. “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” is her fifth Monograph and published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg including essays by Makeda Best, MAKEDA BEST, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums and Courtney J. Martin, director of the Yale Center for British Art.
“side walk 6’ apart in NYC”, published 2021 by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, including an essay by Marilyn Kushner, curator The New-York Historical Society Museum, NY where a solo exhibition was held March-August 2022.
Works are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, N.M., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Yale University Art Gallery, CT, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, New York Historical Society Museum, NY, Musée des beaux-arts Le Locle, Switzerland and Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY where she had a solo exhibition in 2019, which in an extended form travelled to the Brattleboro Museum, VT, October 2022 to February 2023. works from the series Ocean|Desert were shown at the Parrish Art Museum spring/summer
