Curated by Alicia Barton, Pillow Fort explores adolescent nostalgia through a feminine domestic lens. The pillow fort, a makeshift home within the home, is an inhabitable structure created from billowing bedsheets, couch cushions, and pillows that foster a sense of security and easement. Whether through painting, sculpture, or video, artists Alicia Barton, Lily Wai Brennan, Kate Kosek, Minling Lin, and Pam Poquette investigate the ever-evolving “past self.” Apparitions of past versions of the self are alive and moving, preserving through the continuous transformation and shifts of life. In reference to the surreal, the abstract, and the abject, the fluid past self is captured in time as an uncertain, yet beckoning glow of color and form. Like the pillow fort, we are soft, imaginative, yet impermanent. Wistful feelings of nostalgia arise from the realization that at one time, you built your very last pillow fort.
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