Presented in collaboration with The Carnegie and Kadist and Institute 193, Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us is a one-night site-specific exhibition taking place Sunday, June 29, from 7:30-10:30 PM.
This exhibition will feature paintings alongside video and audio work. To experience the paintings in ideal light, we recommend arriving before 8:30 PM. As the sun sets, the video works will then come to life in vivid color.
Curated by Sso-Rha Kang, Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us explores placemaking, shapeshifting, and temporalities of Kentucky through the Ohio River. The river is a point of study and departure, its historical significance rooted in division and symbols of freedom. The river acts as both a border and a point of shared connection—the complexities of this contradiction are unique to Kentucky, revealing the nuances of placemaking and identity.
Rotating through six sites across Kentucky, Institute 193 is proud to be the Lexington-area partner. In addition to a traveling component of video works from Sora Kim and Katinka Bock and an audio piece by Britni Bicknaver and Brianna Kelly, Institute 193 contributes the paintings of Lina Tharsing.
This iteration of the exhibition will inhabit the ruins of an abandoned millhouse, at one time powered by a small tributary of Cane Run Creek, which feeds Elkhorn Creek, then the Kentucky River, and finally runs into the Ohio and onwards. The structure sits on land once held by a horse farm named McGrathiana, notable for breeding Aristides, winner of the first ever Kentucky Derby in 1875. Today, the land is known as Coldstream Park.
Please see the image below for a map to the exhibition venue.
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