“To be made whole”: a solo exhibition from Emily (Em) Koch at the Pleiades Gallery, 547 West 27th St. Suite 304, New York, NY. The show will be on display from July 14th – August 5th 2023. The opening reception takes place on Friday, July 14th from 6:00-10:00 pm with live poetry readings from Eve Driver, Sophia Mautz, Ali Royals & more. The closing reception is Thursday, August 3rd from 6:00-9:00 pm.
Koch’s previous works have focussed on the female form, creating multi-dimensional playgrounds that are unbound by the female canon of ‘otherness’.
“To be made whole” breaks out of the feminine lens with a broadened approach to the subjective//objective experience. Assessing literature & visual systems from antiquity to today, Koch explores the relational nature of ‘being’, the never-ending dance between the self and the other: Whatever ‘it’ is that exists apart from ourselves creates us, but we also take part in creating whatever ‘it’ is. In this solo exhibition, Koch’s visual worlds play with dimensionality, using mirrors, shadows, form and abstraction, to express the creative process that is ‘being’.
To be made whole by seeing and being seen.
