Unsets was organized around Katherine Finkelstein’s (S)unset, a video made using a process in which the camera lens was removed, flipped, and held in reverse against the camera body. When pointed at a light source, any light passing through the lens forms a circle. This video records a Marfa sunset in the last minute as the sun sets over the horizon, the circle stays quivering in place, fading. The video is on a perpetual two-minute loop, setting and rising, disappearing and reappearing, eternally.
Clare Torina mined the prints and objects accompanying the video from Katherine's bedroom. They are a meeting of found natural material, photogram prints, and the tools carved and used to create the photograms. In the darkroom, the glass pieces act as a prismatic medium between the light and paper, here, they respond the light of the video, bouncing color around the space and onto one another. A fragment of a meteorite sits heavy and sharp across the room from a foggy glass egg. Separate but connected, the works are meditations on natural cycles, layered consciousness, and communing with the unknowable.
Unsets is a collaboration between Flyweight Projects, a 1:12 scale gallery run by Clare Torina and Jesse Cesario, and Motherbox, an exhibition space run by Katherine Finkelstein. Clare Torina curated Katherine's work at Flyweight’s stationary exhibition space. In conjunction, the mobile Flyweight space was moved to Motherbox Gallery, where Katherine curated 14 artists' work into the exhibition Babybox.