Joy Episalla, left image: still from As long as there’s you, As long as there’s me, 2023, 35 mins.; right image: detail view of foldtogram (chromo white/blue, winter 40’ x 50”), 2025, light sensitive chromogenic object, dimensions varia
Joy Episalla’s work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. From a queer/feminist perspective, Episalla engages with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity, and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality, and sound. In her film As long as there's you, as long as there's me, she sequences and parlays disparate filmed moments into a travelogue of non-performance performance. In their photo-derived sculptural work, such as the foldtograms, the light sensitive (silver gelatin or chromogenic) objects result from performative and out-of-sequence actions and processes, which are then installed in site-responsive situations.
There will be a screening of As long as there's you, as long as there's me starting at 5:30 p.m. Following the screening is a conversation with artist Joy Episalla and Associate Curator in the Department of Photography Phil Taylor. The program will conclude at 7 p.m.
Tickets are recommended to be purchased in advance, but will also available at the door.
The Wish You Were Here series is generously supported by Thomas N. Tischer, PhD.
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