https://brittanynelson.com Brittany Nelson Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:37:10 +0000 https://brittanynelson.com en https://brittanynelson.com/Rebecca Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:37:10 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/Rebecca <img width="4985" height="3750" width_o="4985" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09ba6792142b6b766e13177dc4e05d14a34198dd3afda7a164801ee570af35fc/Installation2.jpg" data-mid="247436857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09ba6792142b6b766e13177dc4e05d14a34198dd3afda7a164801ee570af35fc/Installation2.jpg" /><img width="4825" height="3969" width_o="4825" height_o="3969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36c6e47d681033a82b70a84f57c57c1192a7a1c3e465573d529e0ea98e2058bc/Artwork1.jpg" data-mid="247436854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36c6e47d681033a82b70a84f57c57c1192a7a1c3e465573d529e0ea98e2058bc/Artwork1.jpg" /><img width="5046" height="3583" width_o="5046" height_o="3583" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f81e860ca4985259fec5b74747fb8995f2e466629f70bcccf1e61b88af388971/Artwork2.jpg" data-mid="247436855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f81e860ca4985259fec5b74747fb8995f2e466629f70bcccf1e61b88af388971/Artwork2.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="1928" width_o="3000" height_o="1928" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e19d59f3314b2dbdd452afc1e3a357a7a09c1e496aba9b30e18a6fd0e91b9b4b/Rebecca_candle.jpg" data-mid="247436882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e19d59f3314b2dbdd452afc1e3a357a7a09c1e496aba9b30e18a6fd0e91b9b4b/Rebecca_candle.jpg" /><img width="5786" height="4340" width_o="5786" height_o="4340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be3bf65b09a84e5c7fde319d37b1768209e73816affe09852a04744529f5d9b9/Installation4.jpg" data-mid="247436859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be3bf65b09a84e5c7fde319d37b1768209e73816affe09852a04744529f5d9b9/Installation4.jpg" /><img width="3442" height="1932" width_o="3442" height_o="1932" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/598d33414bf7d96970dd0d36cb0f1427d72e052831e3bcebb4a6e75a0b572f9e/in-dreams-screenshot.png" data-mid="247436878" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/598d33414bf7d96970dd0d36cb0f1427d72e052831e3bcebb4a6e75a0b572f9e/in-dreams-screenshot.png" />Brittany Nelson’s practice moves between the speculative frontiers of science and science fiction to surface hidden histories, emotional residues, and institutional artifacts. Trained as a photographer, Nelson often reimagines analog chemical techniques, such as mordançage, bromoil, and tintype, while drawing on extensive archival research. The imagery and language of space exploration have been touchstones for Nelson as she considers how contact—whether human or extraterrestrial—is pursued, imagined, or idealized. In recent projects, Nelson draws out the psychological dimensions of science fiction and literature, where projection operates not only as imagining speculative futures but also as idealization or infatuation—means of externalizing memory, desire, estrangement, and longing.&nbsp; Nelson’s List Projects exhibition debuts new photographs and a moving-image work filmed at the Green Bank Observatory (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in West Virginia—a site where, in the artist’s hands, scientific inquiry and emotional projection converge. Home to one of the world’s largest radio telescopes, the site is a hub for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers who scan the cosmos for technosignatures—signals of extraterrestrial intelligence—using radio waves, telescopes, and other specialized instruments. Nelson’s new work is also deeply shaped by literary and cinematic references, particularly Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel Rebecca, in which a young woman develops an obsession with her husband’s late first wife. Like the novel—and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film adaptation—Nelson’s video work plays with intimacy and distance, presence and absence. Its soundtrack incorporates the high-pitched hum of the telescope’s liquid-helium pumps, which throb like mechanical heartbeats. Visually, it alternates quiet 35mm photographs shot from the Observatory’s telescope with increasingly frenzied handheld sequences; at times, the camera appears to be hurled in frustration toward the massive structure. As the pace escalates, so does the emotional charge, producing a tension mired in obsession, longing, and rupture. Nelson has likened the telescope to an “ex-girlfriend,” and the piece unfolds as a kind of breakup narrative—at once intimate and expansive. Drawing from the spectral atmosphere of Rebecca, the work frames the search for contact not only as a scientific endeavor but also as a mirror of the self and the limits of perception and human understanding. List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson is organized by Natalie Bell, Chief Curator with Marina Caron, Assistant Curator. https://brittanynelson.com/The-Array Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:45:06 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/The-Array <img width="2400" height="2949" width_o="2400" height_o="2949" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49b783446ab9eedd7f49d10699985b46008635d39721137c11eed1782f7d9ba1/Roll18_image3_edit-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="217797142" border="0" alt="Overexposed Telescope, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Overexposed Telescope, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49b783446ab9eedd7f49d10699985b46008635d39721137c11eed1782f7d9ba1/Roll18_image3_edit-copy-2.jpg" /> <img width="2368" height="2876" width_o="2368" height_o="2876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a4f93359d496675c47b9671ce13fca6252f41f74050e469b505f62fb3ccce6d/Roll18_image9_edit-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="217797185" border="0" alt="Underexposed Telescope, handmade gelatin silver photograph, 2024" data-caption="Underexposed Telescope, handmade gelatin silver photograph, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a4f93359d496675c47b9671ce13fca6252f41f74050e469b505f62fb3ccce6d/Roll18_image9_edit-copy-2.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd4ec3a160fa26232d80f07be1b8e436ee3b0f727ec545b200f907d4d2960296/Roll19_image3_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="217797327" border="0" alt="Field 1, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Field 1, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd4ec3a160fa26232d80f07be1b8e436ee3b0f727ec545b200f907d4d2960296/Roll19_image3_edit-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2981" height="2434" width_o="2981" height_o="2434" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/072ca1cb5c9b1acf978dd460f8cbd24d2c4cad373a052c6434c81026a448ee28/Roll19_image2_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="217797328" border="0" alt="Field 2, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Field 2, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/072ca1cb5c9b1acf978dd460f8cbd24d2c4cad373a052c6434c81026a448ee28/Roll19_image2_edit-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="5039" width_o="3750" height_o="5039" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e0690291c8f0761f64c8f2b450511a93cffca32c4a40d50332906c2e6e6f5b0/field1-2_edit_2-copy.jpg" data-mid="232912457" border="0" alt="Field 1 and Field 2, Luhring Augustine installation view, 2024" data-caption="Field 1 and Field 2, Luhring Augustine installation view, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e0690291c8f0761f64c8f2b450511a93cffca32c4a40d50332906c2e6e6f5b0/field1-2_edit_2-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3087" height="2048" width_o="3087" height_o="2048" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9ac84a7d867c66c660fae1e01010fb86047803532521369158dce718240c74e/Roll6_image2_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="217836638" border="0" alt="Spotlight 5, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Spotlight 5, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9ac84a7d867c66c660fae1e01010fb86047803532521369158dce718240c74e/Roll6_image2_edit-copy.jpg" /> <img width="7186" height="8726" width_o="7186" height_o="8726" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d37e9b3b5af8735d87400008eee7abf0e1ee2e3a3d257f2695e53df28594cf7/Roll6_image6-2_edit2.jpg" data-mid="217836635" border="0" alt="Spotlight 4, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Spotlight 4, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d37e9b3b5af8735d87400008eee7abf0e1ee2e3a3d257f2695e53df28594cf7/Roll6_image6-2_edit2.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30e260305743afc4737efc32070b2b20c4f2cfa3a33caa070a20c5e85a0d6fc7/Roll2-14_Image5-2_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="217836650" border="0" alt="The Array, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="The Array, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30e260305743afc4737efc32070b2b20c4f2cfa3a33caa070a20c5e85a0d6fc7/Roll2-14_Image5-2_edit-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/695933cf0192eaf390ee26a9c0b7c4cd6fd46f59a66297309bd1f125c932d64b/Roll2-16_Image8_edit.jpg" data-mid="217836653" border="0" alt="Glowing Dish, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Glowing Dish, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/695933cf0192eaf390ee26a9c0b7c4cd6fd46f59a66297309bd1f125c932d64b/Roll2-16_Image8_edit.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e660394e8076f4ae17997d091bde9bd59bdbf174fc0366af820f251e3fe3a0a/Roll2-13_Image3_edit.jpg" data-mid="217836658" border="0" alt="Field Vibration, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Field Vibration, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e660394e8076f4ae17997d091bde9bd59bdbf174fc0366af820f251e3fe3a0a/Roll2-13_Image3_edit.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2500" width_o="3000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/455b8e1c13b5942f4fbb6ac3a7243113835f5402be92670e6bd71088c645636d/Roll2-4_Image1_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="217836660" border="0" alt="Night Observation, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Night Observation, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/455b8e1c13b5942f4fbb6ac3a7243113835f5402be92670e6bd71088c645636d/Roll2-4_Image1_edit-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f733c3075c4e6ab10dc2aa843284d59170b2e231d12d0ac54b2a604ecd2f70a/Roll2-13_Image7_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="218820439" border="0" alt="Double, handmade gelatin silver print, 23 x 32&quot;, 2024" data-caption="Double, handmade gelatin silver print, 23 x 32&quot;, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f733c3075c4e6ab10dc2aa843284d59170b2e231d12d0ac54b2a604ecd2f70a/Roll2-13_Image7_edit-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1149c91bd7344c455e3df6801e88eb13774cdefcfaad41a1b4a64bd5be280d7f/Roll2--_Image3-2_edit.jpg" data-mid="217836664" border="0" alt="Field Ripple, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" data-caption="Field Ripple, handmade gelatin silver print, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1149c91bd7344c455e3df6801e88eb13774cdefcfaad41a1b4a64bd5be280d7f/Roll2--_Image3-2_edit.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37454752dc608945002a3543985ff8f4de775ace03a5dd807487f28082079c6b/Roll2--_Image5_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="217836670" border="0" alt="Observing 1, handmade gelatin silver print, 11 x 9&quot;, 2024" data-caption="Observing 1, handmade gelatin silver print, 11 x 9&quot;, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37454752dc608945002a3543985ff8f4de775ace03a5dd807487f28082079c6b/Roll2--_Image5_edit-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1a778a2abe869f55dcbbfb0fe20b1e7f1291091e9422fdef5df625cfa6ef569/Roll2--_Image6_edit.jpg" data-mid="217836671" border="0" alt="Observing 2, handmade gelatin silver print, 11 x 9&quot;, 2024" data-caption="Observing 2, handmade gelatin silver print, 11 x 9&quot;, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1a778a2abe869f55dcbbfb0fe20b1e7f1291091e9422fdef5df625cfa6ef569/Roll2--_Image6_edit.jpg" /> “Nelson often turns to outer space in her work, employing it as a metaphor for queerness – exploring ideas of isolation and the need for human connection. The works on display in this presentation are from the Allen Telescope Array&nbsp;series, made while Nelson was in residency at the SETI Institute, an organization that is dedicated to searching for life in the universe. While there, she photographed the 42 antennas that compose SETI’s enormous telescope array, roaming the grounds alone at night with a medium-format camera and reversing the telescopes’ outward gaze by searching for them with a hand-held light source. The resulting photographs are at once shocking and soothing; while the enormous scale of the dishes is intimidating, their frontality and open presence imbue them with a sense of acceptance and even trust in the viewer, almost as if they were beings themselves.” - read the full press release from Luhring Augustine here. https://brittanynelson.com/I-Can-t-Make-You-Love-Me Sat, 02 Mar 2024 01:48:25 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/I-Can-t-Make-You-Love-Me <img width="5676" height="3786" width_o="5676" height_o="3786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06ded0ce82528d10314e9f603efe68f647dfeee6cb6cec99b82d2228fc662324/BN111-2.jpg" data-mid="205878048" border="0" alt="Everything but the signature is me, automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" data-caption="Everything but the signature is me, automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06ded0ce82528d10314e9f603efe68f647dfeee6cb6cec99b82d2228fc662324/BN111-2.jpg" /> <img width="7122" height="4750" width_o="7122" height_o="4750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ccdefa0993678811f1f291403479ea449746b462f59e8171f1c5c611c75249f/BN111-5.jpg" data-mid="205878049" border="0" alt="Everything but the signature is me, automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" data-caption="Everything but the signature is me, automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ccdefa0993678811f1f291403479ea449746b462f59e8171f1c5c611c75249f/BN111-5.jpg" /> <img width="7708" height="5141" width_o="7708" height_o="5141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/269d396ab2352a278f1434b4303400e0df66fabd5c3df501e3ba55d8befda368/BN111-7.jpg" data-mid="205878050" border="0" alt="Everything but the signature is me, detail from automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" data-caption="Everything but the signature is me, detail from automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/269d396ab2352a278f1434b4303400e0df66fabd5c3df501e3ba55d8befda368/BN111-7.jpg" /> <img width="6041" height="4029" width_o="6041" height_o="4029" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6efb84b47503547b8ea25ae5a21d8977b9b07525a56da0dd47ceb64173a9fe40/BN111-6.jpg" data-mid="205878051" border="0" alt="Everything but the signature is me, details from automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" data-caption="Everything but the signature is me, details from automated Smith Corona 220 typewriter, 2023-2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6efb84b47503547b8ea25ae5a21d8977b9b07525a56da0dd47ceb64173a9fe40/BN111-6.jpg" /> <img width="6978" height="4654" width_o="6978" height_o="4654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce06427a7379ab25306f12f61dfc65e3c6c32c076a1d12a898756e45fa3d2887/2024-02-BN-Install-08.jpg" data-mid="205878055" border="0" alt="Solaris Ocean #1 and Solaris Ocean #2, unique gelatin silver prints" data-caption="Solaris Ocean #1 and Solaris Ocean #2, unique gelatin silver prints" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce06427a7379ab25306f12f61dfc65e3c6c32c076a1d12a898756e45fa3d2887/2024-02-BN-Install-08.jpg" /> <img width="6139" height="4095" width_o="6139" height_o="4095" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed4fa5aa9090b2f0916464c58891e2204af97367256dd8a8271cf8d92369d9da/2024-02-BN-Install-03.jpg" data-mid="205878059" border="0" alt="Solaris Window, unique gelatin silver print" data-caption="Solaris Window, unique gelatin silver print" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed4fa5aa9090b2f0916464c58891e2204af97367256dd8a8271cf8d92369d9da/2024-02-BN-Install-03.jpg" /> <img width="7285" height="5464" width_o="7285" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76a39b9d8c35a2fea1892be336ed16d99150489ba8b3d3b386b214dc287e33c2/BN112-1-copy.jpg" data-mid="205897124" border="0" alt="Solaris Ocean #1, unique gelatin silver print, 33 &times; 73.25&quot;, 2023" data-caption="Solaris Ocean #1, unique gelatin silver print, 33 × 73.25&quot;, 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76a39b9d8c35a2fea1892be336ed16d99150489ba8b3d3b386b214dc287e33c2/BN112-1-copy.jpg" /> <img width="7285" height="5464" width_o="7285" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f91f785a9d7c70b75d876ad63bb50cf16ca31f3b02792f86b542565a2e7462a/BN113-1-copy2.jpg" data-mid="205897851" border="0" alt="Solaris Ocean #2, unique gelatin silver print, 32.5 &times; 72.5&quot;, 2023" data-caption="Solaris Ocean #2, unique gelatin silver print, 32.5 × 72.5&quot;, 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f91f785a9d7c70b75d876ad63bb50cf16ca31f3b02792f86b542565a2e7462a/BN113-1-copy2.jpg" /> <img width="7285" height="5464" width_o="7285" height_o="5464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6d14d136038b66945b6116ba295528141371ad802c91c31852b4122fdfa3c69/BN114-1-copy2.jpg" data-mid="205897580" border="0" alt="Solaris Window #3, unique gelatin silver print, 32.5 &times; 74.25&quot;, 2023" data-caption="Solaris Window #3, unique gelatin silver print, 32.5 × 74.25&quot;, 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6d14d136038b66945b6116ba295528141371ad802c91c31852b4122fdfa3c69/BN114-1-copy2.jpg" /> <img width="3975" height="2981" width_o="3975" height_o="2981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e231b656cb882fe80591bc4ed481f97a7cbcd18413f93f409a8085446f12b9b/BN095_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-1_2021_300.jpg" data-mid="205898131" border="0" alt="Starbear and Mars Clouds 1, 2021" data-caption="Starbear and Mars Clouds 1, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e231b656cb882fe80591bc4ed481f97a7cbcd18413f93f409a8085446f12b9b/BN095_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-1_2021_300.jpg" /> <img width="3975" height="2981" width_o="3975" height_o="2981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27d3ac421bd3c58eae917dc41d718bd2434965b9bd5c2ee7996acd48c3934cda/BN097_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-3_2021_300.jpg" data-mid="205898181" border="0" alt="Starbear and Mars Clouds 2, 2021" data-caption="Starbear and Mars Clouds 2, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27d3ac421bd3c58eae917dc41d718bd2434965b9bd5c2ee7996acd48c3934cda/BN097_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-3_2021_300.jpg" /> <img width="3975" height="2981" width_o="3975" height_o="2981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26ce59846bb61b2062182873e74e2adb9c58da348a0646310481ff9ff3e7f811/BN096_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-2_2021_300.jpg" data-mid="205898180" border="0" alt="Starbear and Mars Clouds 3, 2024" data-caption="Starbear and Mars Clouds 3, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26ce59846bb61b2062182873e74e2adb9c58da348a0646310481ff9ff3e7f811/BN096_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-2_2021_300.jpg" /> <img width="3975" height="2981" width_o="3975" height_o="2981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f13cb4def9fc6c0b7e7a6b30801ff5105ae0e94bbd2e2724da769af23c0b3be2/BN098_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-4_2021_300.jpg" data-mid="205898183" border="0" alt="Starbear and Mars Clouds 4, 13 x 10.5&quot;, 2021" data-caption="Starbear and Mars Clouds 4, 13 x 10.5&quot;, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f13cb4def9fc6c0b7e7a6b30801ff5105ae0e94bbd2e2724da769af23c0b3be2/BN098_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-4_2021_300.jpg" /> <img width="3975" height="2981" width_o="3975" height_o="2981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8975ffe25b0886c01b89fd641db06d2c7bdd4cf3fe7c5bb6cf1adf7951b7ac4/BN099_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-5_2021_300.jpg" data-mid="205898184" border="0" alt="Starbear and Mars Clouds 5, 2024" data-caption="Starbear and Mars Clouds 5, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8975ffe25b0886c01b89fd641db06d2c7bdd4cf3fe7c5bb6cf1adf7951b7ac4/BN099_Starbear-and-Mars-Clouds-5_2021_300.jpg" /> <img width="7538" height="5028" width_o="7538" height_o="5028" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cab8ed7c11e0f0f296077744d221e4172ff0691e69e1f417bda20cfb9786c2e9/2024-02-BN-Install-09-copy.jpg" data-mid="205878065" border="0" alt="I can't make you love me, runtime 7:55, 2024" data-caption="I can't make you love me, runtime 7:55, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cab8ed7c11e0f0f296077744d221e4172ff0691e69e1f417bda20cfb9786c2e9/2024-02-BN-Install-09-copy.jpg" /> <img width="7480" height="4989" width_o="7480" height_o="4989" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97afe5f5bd5a4ea47e2d75f16eab931b7731bdeb320f531713f84ffc4abe3f22/2024-02-BN-Install-10-copy.jpg" data-mid="205878066" border="0" alt="I can't make you love me, runtime 7:55, 2024" data-caption="I can't make you love me, runtime 7:55, 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97afe5f5bd5a4ea47e2d75f16eab931b7731bdeb320f531713f84ffc4abe3f22/2024-02-BN-Install-10-copy.jpg" /> “You mean more to me than any scientific truth.” ―Kris Kelvin, Solaris PATRON is proud to announce our third solo exhibition with New York-based artist Brittany Nelson (b. 1984). Nelson’s conceptual practice explores how science fiction, and the ongoing pursuit of space exploration, offer venues for the consideration of new social possibilities outside the limitations of heteronormative society. Utilizing analog chemical photographic techniques, historical science fiction and its archive, and visual culture from recent NASA missions, Nelson suggests how extraterrestrial, or non-human actors can function as proxies for queer life. I can’t make you love me pulls open the human, and often deeply romantic quests at the heart of astronomical discovery, both real and imagined. Since 2020, Nelson has researched an extensive archive of letters between science fiction writer Alice B. Sheldon (under the male pseudonym; James Tiptree Jr.) and novelist Ursula Le Guin between 1971 and 1976. Their exchange held space for real-life para-fiction. While withholding her true gender identity, Tiptree’s flirtatious fantasies were received and reciprocated by Le Guin—Tiptree would eventually reveal her true gender identity to Le Guin in 1976, and subsequently see Le Guin as a confidant “Ursula, Ursula I am petrified. - - - will they take it as ‘deception’?” The exhibition opens with the persistent melody of everything but the signature is me (2023), an automaton typewriter, programmed by Nelson to perpetually dictate Tiptree’s excerpted term of endearment for Le Guin; “Starbear.” This coded evidence of Tiptree’s unrequited desire is extracted from their original context, scattered over the page in blue ink. The incessant transfer of the name by a non-human writer, suggests how Tiptree’s own use of a pseudonym functions as a metaphor. The letter, much like the format of science fiction, is a truth written in the present to apply to a future sense. Nelson further collapses past, present, and future in her Solaris series, expansive gelatin silver prints developed from stills of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film. Solaris narrates the plight of Kelvin, a cosmonaut who is pulled into the waking nightmare that has befallen his space station comrades as time and psychological acuity become increasingly warped. Nelson took screenshots from the film and rephotographed them onto 35mmx film at high speeds, a process which accentuates the silver grain of the image. The textural, impressionistic prints, developed with one of the last remaining Fotar Enlargers from the 1950’s, position us within the film itself, vulnerable, gazing outward onto the swirling waters of a foreboding form of extraterrestrial life. Solaris’s swirling waters of the ocean planet, like the mist-moody landscapes of Romantic painters, suggest that the scene is not an image of an experienced reality, but an existential experience of loneliness and mortality. Functioning as a coda, and bringing us to the present is I can’t make you love me, a single channel video, titled after Bonnie Raitt’s 1991 sentimental ballad. Edited from Nelson’s first-hand documentation during a research trip over the summer of 2023 at Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, the film tracks the artist’s own encounter with an isolated astronomical telescope array (Allen Telescope Array or ATA), technologies specifically designed for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). In the film, a presumed human subject sweeps spotlights across the open fields of the observatory, glimpses and fragments of the satellites appear as outlines in the dark as they themselves contemplatively yearn for the faintest glimmer of data to affirm their existence. Brittany Nelson: I can’t make you love me collapses and expands Nelson’s poetic parallels between Tiptree’s own closeted desire, the speculative space of scientific discovery, and the ongoing human quest to find, and communicate with, someone like us. - the full press release available here https://brittanynelson.com/Meet-Me-At-Infinity Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:42:28 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/Meet-Me-At-Infinity <img width="8361" height="5603" width_o="8361" height_o="5603" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15f1f12ff5db619e88208d163a233e0ea71fafb496ac3834e345bcd40564328a/wall-cut-far-back-copy.jpg" data-mid="165301792" border="0" alt="Face on Mars, installation and unique gelatin silver print, 2022" data-caption="Face on Mars, installation and unique gelatin silver print, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15f1f12ff5db619e88208d163a233e0ea71fafb496ac3834e345bcd40564328a/wall-cut-far-back-copy.jpg" /><img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/337197eb1900c9dd14fcd84a7aba36d93c0b3d1999fc51dbee40ecc1a8397bbe/mars-face-up-close-copy.jpg" data-mid="165301717" border="0" alt="Face on Mars, installation and unique gelatin silver print, 2022" data-caption="Face on Mars, installation and unique gelatin silver print, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/337197eb1900c9dd14fcd84a7aba36d93c0b3d1999fc51dbee40ecc1a8397bbe/mars-face-up-close-copy.jpg" /><img width="1236" height="1422" width_o="1236" height_o="1422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35a133900c7c873cf002b79f41e4e49b3fd558898c2c83862255375030274d3f/15_Mars-face-install-copy.jpg" data-mid="247532444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35a133900c7c873cf002b79f41e4e49b3fd558898c2c83862255375030274d3f/15_Mars-face-install-copy.jpg" /><img width="9210" height="6140" width_o="9210" height_o="6140" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/714e7a09f725f5f3186585c62af211a2e3e8754adb5822d287b639ec8f4f7017/two-holograms_doorways.jpg" data-mid="165301721" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/714e7a09f725f5f3186585c62af211a2e3e8754adb5822d287b639ec8f4f7017/two-holograms_doorways.jpg" /><img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/308dfa2a1131db3087a1353aabd6656b188d96a86ab636b7b0a21142bb12545d/hologram-with-opening_edit-copy.jpg" data-mid="165302418" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds (installation view), unique glass plate reflective holograms" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds (installation view), unique glass plate reflective holograms" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/308dfa2a1131db3087a1353aabd6656b188d96a86ab636b7b0a21142bb12545d/hologram-with-opening_edit-copy.jpg" /><img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f538b1d979ca2947fd831bb6db62d2c82c0d8d424ce0b2212781716666358a9/hologram-through-wall-cut-copy.jpg" data-mid="165302410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f538b1d979ca2947fd831bb6db62d2c82c0d8d424ce0b2212781716666358a9/hologram-through-wall-cut-copy.jpg" /><img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d2f1d2b2fc33ebaa343c9ecdb8a8fab6e86380e14499aee1cbca8b0a65eee84/two-holograms.jpg" data-mid="165301770" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds (installation view), unique glass plate reflective holograms" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds (installation view), unique glass plate reflective holograms" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d2f1d2b2fc33ebaa343c9ecdb8a8fab6e86380e14499aee1cbca8b0a65eee84/two-holograms.jpg" /><img width="9504" height="6336" width_o="9504" height_o="6336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c873bff51e8e3bc8d860293f99bfa3616b183f1c55d75f7bdbb479f405d6434/two-bromoils-corner-copy.jpg" data-mid="165301803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c873bff51e8e3bc8d860293f99bfa3616b183f1c55d75f7bdbb479f405d6434/two-bromoils-corner-copy.jpg" /><img width="9517" height="6299" width_o="9517" height_o="6299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0b5fb6365ec2fc64db647c536a616efcf67fe2368c00b59451912bd2ac05ad2/new-bromoil-copy.jpg" data-mid="165302629" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0b5fb6365ec2fc64db647c536a616efcf67fe2368c00b59451912bd2ac05ad2/new-bromoil-copy.jpg" /> A beautiful trait of Brittany Nelson’s work is that in taking care of others, through photography, she addresses in a radically delicate way the devastating effects on individuals—and I would say also on technology—of compulsory heterosexuality. —Chus Martínez, “I Want to Touch the Cosmos with My Eyes”&nbsp; Fotogalleriet presents the first solo exhibition in the Nordic countries of American artist Brittany Nelson. Working with photography through chemical techniques from the 19th and 20th centuries, Nelson unveils the queer unconscious of technology. Brittany Nelson’s work rewrites photography’s history. As one of the most exciting artists of her generation, Nelson presents a critique of Western ideas around the exploration and colonization of space, and poses it against modernity and neoliberal ideals of progress. Nelson produces some of the world’s largest “bromoil” prints, referring to a technique from the 1920s. Bromoil—a romantically charged handmade process that replaces the silver used for photographic prints with lithographic inks—embodies Nelson’s search for a different relationship between representation and technology. Using this photographic method, she re-contextualizes historical and modern science fiction and technological developments, including NASA images produced by robots known as “rovers.” The works exhibited at Fotogalleriet are landscape photographs of Mars, a planet often representing both the future and the past in the public imagination. Nelson’s works appropriate images from the vast archives of the Mars rover Opportunity. The robot lived alone on the planet for 14 years and stayed functional well beyond its initial expected lifespan. The artist reclaims an unconscious life to the robot. In thinking of it roaming the planet as a search for companionship, Nelson considers the rover a “queer icon.” Nelson’s work is interference, a glitch in the hundreds of thousands of files transferred to Earth from 70,404 million km away through space. Her work complicates these images, which are both science fiction in practice and form part of the world-conquering discourse of space travel—a similarly male-dominated realm as photography. Meet Me At Infinity will include various new productions tackling ecology, futurism, and techno-fetishism. As part of Fotogalleriet’s program, the exhibition addresses and challenges established structures and norms in and outside the art field. It links the artistic program to other fields such as politics, society, health, space exploration and technology. Furthermore, Meet Me At Infinityprescribes that photography and the aesthetic field should not merely act within society, but also pose demands. Curators Chus Martínez and Xiaoyu Weng, and artist and writer Himali Singh Soin have been invited to contribute texts to the exhibition book. On the opening night, award-winning novelist and queer legend Gerd Brantenberg will read unpublished texts. Fotogalleriet’s Artistic Director, Dr. Antonio Cataldo, and Director of CAP Saint-Fons (Centre d’art de Saint-Fons) Alessandra Prandin will hold inaugural speeches (Brittany Nelson’s solo I Wish I Had a Dark Seawas held at CAP Saint-Fons in spring 2022 and paved the way for the Oslo exhibition).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://brittanynelson.com/I-Wish-I-Had-A-Dark-Sea Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:51:18 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/I-Wish-I-Had-A-Dark-Sea <img width="2100" height="1400" width_o="2100" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f176a9f8e25f5d4460173bbc9a5c19526e5cbaf5b871886e0009e1dc2da3ffe/I-seem-to-have-done.jpg" data-mid="144952299" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f176a9f8e25f5d4460173bbc9a5c19526e5cbaf5b871886e0009e1dc2da3ffe/I-seem-to-have-done.jpg" /><img width="2100" height="1400" width_o="2100" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/061277dfe336bb1ba28672333b08adb5fb1ad0a33d5533f5cc6184024ac4f3fc/wide-angle-overview.jpg" data-mid="144952305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/061277dfe336bb1ba28672333b08adb5fb1ad0a33d5533f5cc6184024ac4f3fc/wide-angle-overview.jpg" /><img width="2100" height="1400" width_o="2100" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ddd547113f8e4a3ed975348a2ec422ea29e8f393d06f4dc9411476d510f8f011/doorway-contact-sheet.jpg" data-mid="144952297" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ddd547113f8e4a3ed975348a2ec422ea29e8f393d06f4dc9411476d510f8f011/doorway-contact-sheet.jpg" /><img width="2100" height="1366" width_o="2100" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30cb00a85332fde5fc0bdc1ba0f1118514a25e22c6cff18cd3b163b88445440b/contact-sheet.jpg" data-mid="144952295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30cb00a85332fde5fc0bdc1ba0f1118514a25e22c6cff18cd3b163b88445440b/contact-sheet.jpg" /><img width="1753" height="1168" width_o="1753" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffa58a96deef02a577a5d8e318d76701fbbec24475c70196265c3b181d796613/cloud-red-door.jpg" data-mid="144952293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffa58a96deef02a577a5d8e318d76701fbbec24475c70196265c3b181d796613/cloud-red-door.jpg" /><img width="2100" height="1400" width_o="2100" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5305e47f850beef852970ee6ae4f1e1cac122d561f83e6c410a4fe2aca3e5df/hologram-install.jpg" data-mid="144952298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5305e47f850beef852970ee6ae4f1e1cac122d561f83e6c410a4fe2aca3e5df/hologram-install.jpg" /><img width="2034" height="1311" width_o="2034" height_o="1311" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0d2afaa990d6419c4760bd33048aa2aa95d0f005fe2fc91d5d797f2620f7cf1/you-always-understand-install-with-screen.jpg" data-mid="144952306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0d2afaa990d6419c4760bd33048aa2aa95d0f005fe2fc91d5d797f2620f7cf1/you-always-understand-install-with-screen.jpg" /><img width="1500" height="1960" width_o="1500" height_o="1960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbefaef96b4e95117e097f52a438e2a7d6048ed33c4fdc8edfb6dac4a7ebbf39/you-always-understand-install.jpg" data-mid="144952307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbefaef96b4e95117e097f52a438e2a7d6048ed33c4fdc8edfb6dac4a7ebbf39/you-always-understand-install.jpg" /><img width="1462" height="2193" width_o="1462" height_o="2193" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9b72d9743a5d03f7007b7d413816265fd05516a2b326a09e5a87aa785cd920e/dark-sea-install.jpg" data-mid="144952296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9b72d9743a5d03f7007b7d413816265fd05516a2b326a09e5a87aa785cd920e/dark-sea-install.jpg" /> “For her first solo exhibition in France, at the CAP Saint-Fons, the American artist Brittany Nelson will be presenting works from the series Starbear and Tiptree’s Dead Birds, new productions and a new video which will be shown for the first time at the Art Centre. I wish I had a dark sea paves the way for the retrospective that will be devoted to her at the Fotogalleriet in Oslo (Norway) in autumn 2022. The exhibition is built around the figure of Alice B. Sheldon, known under the male pseudonym of James Tiptree – a prolific author of science-fiction novels in the 1970s – who was closeted. Desire, gender identity and the great loneliness hidden behind an alter ego, are at the heart of her correspondence with another successful writer – Ursula LeGuin – for whom Sheldon developed deep and unspoken feelings. For several years, Nelson has been interested in this rich corpus and has conducted research in the vast archives of the feminist science-fiction collection at the University of Oregon. The result is the gelatin silver prints of the Starbear series, presented at the CAP in large-format prints, where the artist erases the text to leave only the words of affection intended for LeGuin, like furtive appearances on the photographic surface. In I wish I had a dark sea, which gives its title to the exhibition, the artist inverts the image, treating the text as a landscape where words float on a vast black surface, a dark sea, a desert inhabited by Sheldon’s solitude. The pages of the writer’s notebook emerge from areas of light or shadow in the Tiptree’s Dead Birds series, where holographic reproduction – an ancient process where refraction and diffraction create optical illusions – gives a new dimension to the text, a depth that is both formal and symbolic. As letters from the past that speak of the future, the holograms bring us still closer to Sheldon’s intimate universe. She referred to the women she loved (but who rejected her) as “dead birds,” consolidating the feeling of an unfulfilled desire.” the full press release available here. https://brittanynelson.com/Opportunity-1 Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:28:45 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/Opportunity-1 <img width="7108" height="4744" width_o="7108" height_o="4744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e349868159e46a8844bd6b7067138e9415c0f115cc44e9b19cc571649e02085/BN063_Tracks-1_300.jpg" data-mid="48792738" border="0" alt="Tracks 1, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" data-caption="Tracks 1, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e349868159e46a8844bd6b7067138e9415c0f115cc44e9b19cc571649e02085/BN063_Tracks-1_300.jpg" /> <img width="6718" height="4483" width_o="6718" height_o="4483" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc511c4da412ee490d7354513b91a88743d61a8cdf3044ebd38eba34f123a7ad/tracks--2-edit.jpg" data-mid="91702307" border="0" alt="Tracks 2, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 70&quot;" data-caption="Tracks 2, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 70&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc511c4da412ee490d7354513b91a88743d61a8cdf3044ebd38eba34f123a7ad/tracks--2-edit.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b3b886bef3f5c0afbad0f990cef98d7b9ee8cba0b95cf43bd5c10b254e72f0a/BN066_Greeley-Haven_300.jpg" data-mid="48792736" border="0" alt="Greeley Haven, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" data-caption="Greeley Haven, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b3b886bef3f5c0afbad0f990cef98d7b9ee8cba0b95cf43bd5c10b254e72f0a/BN066_Greeley-Haven_300.jpg" /> <img width="6718" height="4483" width_o="6718" height_o="4483" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3da30cca3c583990b9762987700d76e6ea548776d84395149bffdb9bbf3dfbc2/FacingAwayFromVictoriaCrater-copy.jpg" data-mid="183362481" border="0" alt="Facing Away From Victoria Crater, 2022. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" data-caption="Facing Away From Victoria Crater, 2022. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3da30cca3c583990b9762987700d76e6ea548776d84395149bffdb9bbf3dfbc2/FacingAwayFromVictoriaCrater-copy.jpg" /> <img width="6719" height="4484" width_o="6719" height_o="4484" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66d433252906bdbfe2d863b26556227f13db743f1723852adfef2ac77b780186/BN064_Endeavor-Crater_300.jpg" data-mid="48792737" border="0" alt="Endeavor Crater, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 70&quot;" data-caption="Endeavor Crater, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 70&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66d433252906bdbfe2d863b26556227f13db743f1723852adfef2ac77b780186/BN064_Endeavor-Crater_300.jpg" /> <img width="7102" height="4740" width_o="7102" height_o="4740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0c21f2c45ab4202d77444c144b242115e02ca49f765d9d622be9f895a3a1a4a/SpiritofStLouisCrater-copy.jpg" data-mid="183472891" border="0" alt="Spirit of St. Louis Crater, 2022, Unique bromoil photograph, 42 x 70&quot;" data-caption="Spirit of St. Louis Crater, 2022, Unique bromoil photograph, 42 x 70&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0c21f2c45ab4202d77444c144b242115e02ca49f765d9d622be9f895a3a1a4a/SpiritofStLouisCrater-copy.jpg" /> <img width="6689" height="4464" width_o="6689" height_o="4464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bc23342ba9f4e62ab3332b8fa18441aeb5fc249a0b0cd4bc1b54280e8ceea5a/BN065_Endeavor-Crater-Rim_300.jpg" data-mid="91794963" border="0" alt="Endeavor Crater Rim, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" data-caption="Endeavor Crater Rim, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bc23342ba9f4e62ab3332b8fa18441aeb5fc249a0b0cd4bc1b54280e8ceea5a/BN065_Endeavor-Crater-Rim_300.jpg" /> <img width="6718" height="4483" width_o="6718" height_o="4483" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f15eb0777a4b94f81e95d01802c03c983de2755cdc3be699a1220571dcc3935f/BN062_Wharton-Ridge_300.jpg" data-mid="48792739" border="0" alt="Wharton Ridge, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 69&quot;" data-caption="Wharton Ridge, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 69&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f15eb0777a4b94f81e95d01802c03c983de2755cdc3be699a1220571dcc3935f/BN062_Wharton-Ridge_300.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4485" width_o="6720" height_o="4485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e70027ddcdfe908f2e4a03a7588c45f95f1893a252e9664661b52bf817442053/BN067_Olympia_300.jpg" data-mid="48792735" border="0" alt="Olympia, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" data-caption="Olympia, 2019. Unique bromoil photograph. 42 x 67&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e70027ddcdfe908f2e4a03a7588c45f95f1893a252e9664661b52bf817442053/BN067_Olympia_300.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28ccd7325040554187638d6c2308b1b2a534022ebcd3ff79a7ddf9dbdea0ef58/BN067_Olympia_3001_smaller.jpg" data-mid="91795032" border="0" alt="Detail from Olympia, 2019." data-caption="Detail from Olympia, 2019." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28ccd7325040554187638d6c2308b1b2a534022ebcd3ff79a7ddf9dbdea0ef58/BN067_Olympia_3001_smaller.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4500" width_o="6000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54813cab95d35e5a07d276538de5f9cf161845bcb4f794256c75de15160659a8/bonniers_update.jpg" data-mid="185249254" border="0" alt="Installation view, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden" data-caption="Installation view, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54813cab95d35e5a07d276538de5f9cf161845bcb4f794256c75de15160659a8/bonniers_update.jpg" /> In 2004, the American space agency NASA launched a mission of two rovers to prospect the surface of Mars. The twin vehicles named Spirit and Opportunity were designed to roam the planet for 90 sols (90 Martian days corresponding to 24 hours and 40 minutes each), collecting data on territory, evidence to provide clues on ancient life and water, and other findings that might brace hypotheses of future habitability. Spirit fulfilled its mission and ceded its functions in 2011, outliving its estimated lifespan by seven years, while Opportunity is still wandering the planet today. Able to clean its solar panels from dust swirled up during Martian storms, the rover was assigned new scientific missions originally unintended and unforeseen. Among the outcomes of these are multiple images taken by Opportunity as it looks back over its path and photographs its own tracks, which are held in NASA’s publicly accessible archives. Auspicious and pioneering as future visions of life on Mars may seem, the images of a lonely rover roaming the surface of this faraway planet, long after completing its mission and abandoned by its twin, evoke a sense of anthropomorphic solitude. For the work Opportunity, Nelson reproduced one of Opportunity’s photographs in bromoil, a 19th century technique which became popularized by the pictorialist movement. Depicting the deserted Martian landscape, the work evokes both the nostalgia of hand-created, rather than recorded, bromoil photographs, and the futuristic endeavor to make this barren planet inhabitable. Looking at the black-and-white soft-contoured image, brought out by Nelson’s ink brush touching the photographic surface, we may think of humans longing to touch, and eventually inhabit, this extraterrestrial landscape of craters and sand dunes—a longing harnessed by the “pioneers” attempting to create a new habitat for those adventurous and wealthy enough to partake.&nbsp; https://brittanynelson.com/Tiptree-s-Dead-Birds Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:08:09 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/Tiptree-s-Dead-Birds <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eebe8a080433c86cea677f81129b0213b7a52cba902a1a0cbebaa0b5cb7b798/Dead-Birds-1.jpg" data-mid="48835234" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 1, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 1, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6eebe8a080433c86cea677f81129b0213b7a52cba902a1a0cbebaa0b5cb7b798/Dead-Birds-1.jpg" /> <img width="2882" height="4324" width_o="2882" height_o="4324" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83c1809c708805f2277f3405ee837bec6db15621c051037418b82d47c960f442/Dead-Birds-2.jpg" data-mid="48835227" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 2, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 2, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83c1809c708805f2277f3405ee837bec6db15621c051037418b82d47c960f442/Dead-Birds-2.jpg" /> <img width="2275" height="3413" width_o="2275" height_o="3413" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d0a690c3046888b7edbd6e88d278680d9edcd4597bd8a3b0f54e7096798d540/Dead-Birds-3.jpg" data-mid="48835220" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 3, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 3, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d0a690c3046888b7edbd6e88d278680d9edcd4597bd8a3b0f54e7096798d540/Dead-Birds-3.jpg" /> <img width="2736" height="4104" width_o="2736" height_o="4104" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59e5459ae1aa4cbdc1fbbeb2b744868cca6fe8f1ff0a7b12289b84ec2f16a4b1/Dead-Birds-4.jpg" data-mid="48835230" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 4, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 4, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59e5459ae1aa4cbdc1fbbeb2b744868cca6fe8f1ff0a7b12289b84ec2f16a4b1/Dead-Birds-4.jpg" /> <img width="2513" height="3769" width_o="2513" height_o="3769" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f83075601ba3633c85d8f8626cc194628d2703572312a75c758732629514ad3/Dead-Birds_6.jpg" data-mid="48835217" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 6, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 6, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f83075601ba3633c85d8f8626cc194628d2703572312a75c758732629514ad3/Dead-Birds_6.jpg" /> <img width="3348" height="5022" width_o="3348" height_o="5022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d66988cb49d7a0cf4886b7deeb09dcfcfff2b42b0ed535d17095f1ec044d08f/Dead-Birds-5.jpg" data-mid="48835224" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 5, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 5, 2019. Glass plate reflective hologram. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d66988cb49d7a0cf4886b7deeb09dcfcfff2b42b0ed535d17095f1ec044d08f/Dead-Birds-5.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b67f2ed9ca8179740de5773df7cb64d65b41aa6b0fee5275345461711f06d9dd/Dead-Birds-6_2.jpg" data-mid="91707068" border="0" alt="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 6" data-caption="Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 6" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b67f2ed9ca8179740de5773df7cb64d65b41aa6b0fee5275345461711f06d9dd/Dead-Birds-6_2.jpg" /> <img width="7110" height="4746" width_o="7110" height_o="4746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92c1c18940e42a7ac1ceee7f1e452dfcaefbcc0f2d62e2b18572f4203e66665f/2019_10-000-Light-Years-From-Home_PATRON_3009.jpg" data-mid="48835215" border="0" alt="10,000 Light Years From Home, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL" data-caption="10,000 Light Years From Home, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92c1c18940e42a7ac1ceee7f1e452dfcaefbcc0f2d62e2b18572f4203e66665f/2019_10-000-Light-Years-From-Home_PATRON_3009.jpg" /> <img width="3067" height="4231" width_o="3067" height_o="4231" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75194d7f87645e514172e657473ce3728bbfd809e3ba375806ffe97978a8b508/Dead-Birds-2-Detail.jpg" data-mid="91706705" border="0" alt="Detail from Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 2" data-caption="Detail from Tiptree's Dead Birds, Page 2" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75194d7f87645e514172e657473ce3728bbfd809e3ba375806ffe97978a8b508/Dead-Birds-2-Detail.jpg" /> James Tiptree Jr., really Alice B. Sheldon, insulated herself with a male pen name and male narrative voices in the 1970’s in order to discuss her closeted sexuality. Working with Sheldon’s biographer, Julie Phillips in Amsterdam, digital scans of a series of six hastily handwritten letters from Sheldon were obtained titled “Tiptree’s Dead Birds”. Writing as Tiptree, she details all of the women who had rejected her in her lifetime. These letters read as an epitaph to a lifetime of isolation. With the original documents subsequently lost, the scans were captured as glass plate refelctive holograms to replace the physical form of the letters, and to provide a window into Sheldon’s alternate universe. https://brittanynelson.com/Sol-4-999 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:48:53 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/Sol-4-999 <img width="2867" height="2293" width_o="2867" height_o="2293" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a54f57512a8065b184033b58d96c0ee0784920acb254aaae8b801a90a227f57c/sunrise-11_edtit.jpg" data-mid="33864404" border="0" alt="Sunrise 11, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 11, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a54f57512a8065b184033b58d96c0ee0784920acb254aaae8b801a90a227f57c/sunrise-11_edtit.jpg" /> <img width="3119" height="2495" width_o="3119" height_o="2495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f89f82ab27c11ca312e2360b13769317f52725dd66e452b42e60b5006ce9abe8/sunrise-23_edit.jpg" data-mid="33830064" border="0" alt="Sunrise 23, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 23, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f89f82ab27c11ca312e2360b13769317f52725dd66e452b42e60b5006ce9abe8/sunrise-23_edit.jpg" /> <img width="2968" height="2374" width_o="2968" height_o="2374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81a2a799187254be3e80e22acea6eedaeaa4dd332d8c3805c0426bd8c4023cf0/sunrise-2_edit.jpg" data-mid="33828243" border="0" alt="Sunrise 2, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 10 x 8&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 2, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 10 x 8&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81a2a799187254be3e80e22acea6eedaeaa4dd332d8c3805c0426bd8c4023cf0/sunrise-2_edit.jpg" /> <img width="3113" height="2491" width_o="3113" height_o="2491" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bfea96b8adef491ec584036471ad876fe94f9e3134601d1d4b029e0509206a3/sunrise-25_edit.jpg" data-mid="33825927" border="0" alt="Sunrise 25, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 25, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bfea96b8adef491ec584036471ad876fe94f9e3134601d1d4b029e0509206a3/sunrise-25_edit.jpg" /> <img width="2946" height="2357" width_o="2946" height_o="2357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c04fcc914465b0c5579287d3c6a1a89bef026431286977f7eae92f8a69fa4e74/sunrise-7_edit.jpg" data-mid="33856586" border="0" alt="Sunrise 7, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 7, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c04fcc914465b0c5579287d3c6a1a89bef026431286977f7eae92f8a69fa4e74/sunrise-7_edit.jpg" /> <img width="2907" height="2325" width_o="2907" height_o="2325" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b6b324fe79f6c5320747bd64f396dcd74a61b5a7a0013969b0d5d466f5eb13c/Sunrise-8_edit.jpg" data-mid="33825912" border="0" alt="Sunrise 8, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 8, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b6b324fe79f6c5320747bd64f396dcd74a61b5a7a0013969b0d5d466f5eb13c/Sunrise-8_edit.jpg" /> <img width="2941" height="2353" width_o="2941" height_o="2353" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f6b1490909c1ef68550464ba367ec9d01f46f55923f555ffad511b3e29c6df7/sunrise-13_edit.jpg" data-mid="91907135" border="0" alt="Sunrise 13, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 13, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f6b1490909c1ef68550464ba367ec9d01f46f55923f555ffad511b3e29c6df7/sunrise-13_edit.jpg" /> <img width="1841" height="1472" width_o="1841" height_o="1472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/721521ed72bde177c63a34a5bdd1a76147cef1a90aa53668f1833712489bb288/sunrise-5_edit.jpg" data-mid="91907298" border="0" alt="Sunrise 5, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 5, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/721521ed72bde177c63a34a5bdd1a76147cef1a90aa53668f1833712489bb288/sunrise-5_edit.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fc5780f730cb982a01b4c51f44fe81d7e87ee197560dcdfa9f7d5af4e4408e6/sunrise-1_edit.jpg" data-mid="33826794" border="0" alt="Sunrise 1, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" data-caption="Sunrise 1, 2018. Halochrome toned gelatin silver photograph. 8 x 10&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fc5780f730cb982a01b4c51f44fe81d7e87ee197560dcdfa9f7d5af4e4408e6/sunrise-1_edit.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c859516df8ce01eec0e5d97d451e286b4b6162c4e0cf91aee39d2385e05b84e9/RightCorner_Reflections.jpg" data-mid="33827888" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c859516df8ce01eec0e5d97d451e286b4b6162c4e0cf91aee39d2385e05b84e9/RightCorner_Reflections.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2382bd80d243833e83b9a3dc839054e380decbba3572a2c8c8757fdafdcc1f32/LeftCorner_Reflections.jpg" data-mid="33827575" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2382bd80d243833e83b9a3dc839054e380decbba3572a2c8c8757fdafdcc1f32/LeftCorner_Reflections.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4d90526b51a1314dbdd02bdf69299265d5ab00de5c3338f0e72b8188b64f03f/Sol-4-999-install-1.jpg" data-mid="91906555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4d90526b51a1314dbdd02bdf69299265d5ab00de5c3338f0e72b8188b64f03f/Sol-4-999-install-1.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a4cdd9cb900ec93fdd1e6c43c055e5990e1bb79f9323aa7c73a85c34fbb5c39/USE2.jpg" data-mid="33827850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a4cdd9cb900ec93fdd1e6c43c055e5990e1bb79f9323aa7c73a85c34fbb5c39/USE2.jpg" /> Sol 4,999 references a picture taken by the Opportunity mars rover as the sun rises for the 5,000th time during its extended mission, long after the vehicle was to be discontinued. Appropriating the image, Nelson created a series of halochrome prints, each repeating the same photograph. Bleaching and redeveloping silver gelatin paper, the halochrome process tones black-and-white prints by fusing colloidal silver into solid silver. This chemical stabilizing process raises questions concerning permanence, both of human and other life as well as of artifacts cast in rigid materials for future generations to find and marvel at. The prints also call to mind the way alien artifacts are imagined widely across popular culture, as metal objects with shiny surfaces. In depicting images of the sun, the work points to the medium of photography as a capture of light, while the repeated images formally resemble a fragmentary calendar, an attempt to measure something as abstract as time passing on a desolate planet. For Opportunity, the sun rose and set 5,000 times during 14 years of solitude on Mars. The title of the show points to another form of isolation. Warm Worlds and Otherwise references a science fiction short story collection by Alice B. Sheldon,who wrote under the male pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. In obfuscating her identity, Sheldon insulated herself twice, both protecting herself against the misogynist attitudes cultivated in science fiction circles, and allowing her write about her own lesbian desires. Warm Worlds and Otherwise, the book and the exhibition, highlight desires to tap into other worlds, the serendipity in searching for the unknown, and exercises in abstraction that elude preconceptions while sounding other possible futures. https://brittanynelson.com/And-I-Awoke-and-Found-Me-Here-on-the-Cold-Hill-s-Side Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:44:35 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/And-I-Awoke-and-Found-Me-Here-on-the-Cold-Hill-s-Side <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e9903c9a3b50e8742b0d12f9b471577c004578daff0ac9d8db8af9ff93efe6d/2018_And-I-Awoke-Found-Me-Here-On-The-Cold-Hill-s-Side--1-6_300.jpg" data-mid="126606542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e9903c9a3b50e8742b0d12f9b471577c004578daff0ac9d8db8af9ff93efe6d/2018_And-I-Awoke-Found-Me-Here-On-The-Cold-Hill-s-Side--1-6_300.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="6000" width_o="4800" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c185fd93e90684e7747f1b862aaff60c62ecf0941257f8244942901f1c6fd9d1/Page-1-edit.jpg" data-mid="33883114" border="0" alt="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 1, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." data-caption="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 1, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c185fd93e90684e7747f1b862aaff60c62ecf0941257f8244942901f1c6fd9d1/Page-1-edit.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="5999" width_o="4800" height_o="5999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c13c07a038698a215a5c7a5e670236f24cc14cbcb10eb4f90426d391602cfdc/Page-2-edit.jpg" data-mid="33883115" border="0" alt="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 2, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." data-caption="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 2, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c13c07a038698a215a5c7a5e670236f24cc14cbcb10eb4f90426d391602cfdc/Page-2-edit.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="6001" width_o="4800" height_o="6001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a44298311cf6bdc4f5c241e58702b48a4631dfd8842011f8f753d5e9b2c4a609/Page-3-_-edit.jpg" data-mid="33883117" border="0" alt="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 3, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." data-caption="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 3, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a44298311cf6bdc4f5c241e58702b48a4631dfd8842011f8f753d5e9b2c4a609/Page-3-_-edit.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="6000" width_o="4800" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bc59fa0e61bd9cea5215cfa946e76fe2e11321c2fe423de5b59bc9e55f2deb8/Page-4-edit.jpg" data-mid="33883118" border="0" alt="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 4, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." data-caption="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 4, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bc59fa0e61bd9cea5215cfa946e76fe2e11321c2fe423de5b59bc9e55f2deb8/Page-4-edit.jpg" /> <img width="4759" height="5948" width_o="4759" height_o="5948" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f298845e02263a1e840e7443bbff304f8ab27ace5a19c7e2c667ca163e67b38/Page-5-edit.jpg" data-mid="33883119" border="0" alt="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 5, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." data-caption="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 5, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f298845e02263a1e840e7443bbff304f8ab27ace5a19c7e2c667ca163e67b38/Page-5-edit.jpg" /> <img width="4800" height="6000" width_o="4800" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e24c0d7aab6b86a311508a3e024bb56f8dd905eb7ecfec8cd5049d7b640abd11/Page-6---edit.jpg" data-mid="33883120" border="0" alt="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 6, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." data-caption="And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side, Page 6, 2018. Unique gelatin silver photograph." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e24c0d7aab6b86a311508a3e024bb56f8dd905eb7ecfec8cd5049d7b640abd11/Page-6---edit.jpg" /> “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side is a series of six images created from the book pages of a short story by James Tiptree Jr. Tiptree’s writing was celebrated for its direct tone, ardency, and fearlessness. The writer Robert Silverberg’s introduction to the 1975 edition of the short story collection Warm Worlds and Otherwise praises Tiptree’s language as one which could never be achieved by a woman. And yet, Tiptree was the pseudonym used by Alice B. Sheldon, a female author indulging in fantastical and dark psychological cosmic journeys inspired by pulp tales and lesbian sexual desires. In Tiptree’s short story And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (1972), a reporter interviews a captain of a spaceport, who describes how sex with aliens has ruined his and everyone else’s lives. He warns the reporter to leave immediately to avoid contracting the same addictive obsession with travelers from another world. Tiptree’s short story has been ascribed to her repressed sexuality. In writing under a male pseudonym and through the voice of a male protagonist, she insulated her subjectivity twice and achieved freedom to discuss her desires under these terms. In exposing the pages in the darkroom, the back of the paper seeps through to the front. Using a flashlight for exposure, with fast strokes of light caressing the photosensitive surfaces, and revealing the front and the back of the pages simultaneously, rendering the words illegible and conflating fore and rear, before and after.” - Stefanie Hessler https://brittanynelson.com/Mordancage Wed, 02 May 2018 00:20:02 +0000 Brittany Nelson https://brittanynelson.com/Mordancage <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5d91e8b8622c9e23ed3c80afc4c97f984d02fe7f5670b3c4a43e7155c24a9d8/_24A2042-HDR.jpg" data-mid="233569941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5d91e8b8622c9e23ed3c80afc4c97f984d02fe7f5670b3c4a43e7155c24a9d8/_24A2042-HDR.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a57145bfed66b8200612365b9fdcd68f8be0291ccd678b1fa4599b3ce2bc8ff5/Mordancage2_72x72-Cprint.jpg" data-mid="15696222" border="0" alt="Mordancage 2, 2013. 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 2, 2013. 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a57145bfed66b8200612365b9fdcd68f8be0291ccd678b1fa4599b3ce2bc8ff5/Mordancage2_72x72-Cprint.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb99f14f437d1b19db954a0be4efb4a2a0aef2fcda11d8d7c0bd0a3ade664131/Mordancage9_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812658" border="0" alt="Mordancage 9, 2021, 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 9, 2021, 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb99f14f437d1b19db954a0be4efb4a2a0aef2fcda11d8d7c0bd0a3ade664131/Mordancage9_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62858fd4b2211334a005735e357b755456e21342ecc1135d0f75dae30810c6da/Mordancage3_72x72-Cprint.jpg" data-mid="15696220" border="0" alt="Mordancage 3, 2016, 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 3, 2016, 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62858fd4b2211334a005735e357b755456e21342ecc1135d0f75dae30810c6da/Mordancage3_72x72-Cprint.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62d7c15273cdb7acb841bb28f2570937dccd6d40b18245996f91fc4971463d29/Mordancage4.jpg" data-mid="15696219" border="0" alt="Mordancage 4, 2017. 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 4, 2017. 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62d7c15273cdb7acb841bb28f2570937dccd6d40b18245996f91fc4971463d29/Mordancage4.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b714a11e850248ef8e8dc6cc00a3cd1fc1895b2edc08d5977453f675b9ac52d/Mordancage5_PRINT.jpg" data-mid="66550833" border="0" alt="Mordancage 5, 2019. 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 5, 2019. 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b714a11e850248ef8e8dc6cc00a3cd1fc1895b2edc08d5977453f675b9ac52d/Mordancage5_PRINT.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d47b0e489cace9a88516ea184911dfe34ebd5831bbdc245925cfcc64ebb3260f/Mordancage7.jpg" data-mid="102219233" border="0" alt=" Mordancage 7, 2021. 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption=" Mordancage 7, 2021. 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d47b0e489cace9a88516ea184911dfe34ebd5831bbdc245925cfcc64ebb3260f/Mordancage7.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d23249c8f8161827c0c3662f1aa92e54bd7df434dfe63625b0d9ebdd370aade4/Mordancage8_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812651" border="0" alt="Mordancage 8, 2021, 72 x72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 8, 2021, 72 x72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d23249c8f8161827c0c3662f1aa92e54bd7df434dfe63625b0d9ebdd370aade4/Mordancage8_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9735af0d8f0fc360ef2d3675bfde259c9ae92e30cd93d61e4c4508d1deb63d5a/Mordancage_72x72-cprint.jpg" data-mid="15696221" border="0" alt="Mordancage, 2011. 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage, 2011. 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9735af0d8f0fc360ef2d3675bfde259c9ae92e30cd93d61e4c4508d1deb63d5a/Mordancage_72x72-cprint.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb99f14f437d1b19db954a0be4efb4a2a0aef2fcda11d8d7c0bd0a3ade664131/Mordancage9_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812658" border="0" alt="Mordancage 9, 2021, 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 9, 2021, 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb99f14f437d1b19db954a0be4efb4a2a0aef2fcda11d8d7c0bd0a3ade664131/Mordancage9_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20aae8f846ad0e2d8a003bec957614f0fd088deb06e085f92f99a950a36e03ab/GelatinSilver.jpg" data-mid="15696223" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver, 2013. 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver, 2013. 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20aae8f846ad0e2d8a003bec957614f0fd088deb06e085f92f99a950a36e03ab/GelatinSilver.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/712d7673560cd151c0914bb4fdc14c0a5f5bc726e848bbbecd86f582b8ce1ea5/GelatinSilver2NEWprint.jpg" data-mid="15696224" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 2, 2014. 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 2, 2014. 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/712d7673560cd151c0914bb4fdc14c0a5f5bc726e848bbbecd86f582b8ce1ea5/GelatinSilver2NEWprint.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="900" width_o="900" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2aa39c368bbfebef037025a52d2ea57989f8d95647a2ca7b9e899dc4da59a4e3/GelatinSilver4.jpg" data-mid="15696217" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 4, 2013. 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 4, 2013. 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/2aa39c368bbfebef037025a52d2ea57989f8d95647a2ca7b9e899dc4da59a4e3/GelatinSilver4.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4daa0b80e858c383b252e83ed5a08723be187f5182fe85b25f1c2f62182e73f/GelatinSilver5.jpg" data-mid="15696218" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 5, 2016, 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 5, 2016, 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4daa0b80e858c383b252e83ed5a08723be187f5182fe85b25f1c2f62182e73f/GelatinSilver5.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32efdaaa6138123c383aa903b30336e27171285bcb425ce5e4059a3982e1b267/GelatinSilver6.jpg" data-mid="102219202" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 6, 2021. 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 6, 2021. 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32efdaaa6138123c383aa903b30336e27171285bcb425ce5e4059a3982e1b267/GelatinSilver6.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69107d8f970f8d83948b0256d26d24d1145b7caf64a6f457e4b64a250a5a8d23/GelatinSilver7_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812691" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 7, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 7, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69107d8f970f8d83948b0256d26d24d1145b7caf64a6f457e4b64a250a5a8d23/GelatinSilver7_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3205e0c5e8faaaa20708b151a9128a1d5e67978932878a31c3a59432e7a7863/GelatinSilver8_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812692" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 8, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 8, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3205e0c5e8faaaa20708b151a9128a1d5e67978932878a31c3a59432e7a7863/GelatinSilver8_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4db44679768822597c754f175f79fa73e30d207cc58eb3b6d6fa1b3207eed207/GelatinSilver9_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812738" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 9, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 9, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4db44679768822597c754f175f79fa73e30d207cc58eb3b6d6fa1b3207eed207/GelatinSilver9_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45db78984de99f3bee9457ce438b85f46daf743492ea91bf3190584c21c6388b/GelatinSilver10_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812696" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 10, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 10, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45db78984de99f3bee9457ce438b85f46daf743492ea91bf3190584c21c6388b/GelatinSilver10_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/463bfb4aeec8db36d42b7ccca3c3a13aaa40ce415b070a66a267c68bf83e50e3/GelatinSilver11_PRINT-copy.jpg" data-mid="123812741" border="0" alt="Gelatin Silver 11, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" data-caption="Gelatin Silver 11, 2021, 40 x 40&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/463bfb4aeec8db36d42b7ccca3c3a13aaa40ce415b070a66a267c68bf83e50e3/GelatinSilver11_PRINT-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2489" height="3319" width_o="2489" height_o="3319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ddf051f62f4416faa9179033d102f4db0234a88cbebf9b4b298d08495356998/BN092_Mordancage-7_-2021_3002.jpg" data-mid="110977737" border="0" alt="Mordancage 7, installation at Patron Gallery, 72 x 72&quot;" data-caption="Mordancage 7, installation at Patron Gallery, 72 x 72&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ddf051f62f4416faa9179033d102f4db0234a88cbebf9b4b298d08495356998/BN092_Mordancage-7_-2021_3002.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5d91e8b8622c9e23ed3c80afc4c97f984d02fe7f5670b3c4a43e7155c24a9d8/_24A2042-HDR.jpg" data-mid="233569941" border="0" alt="Mordancage 1 and 2, Industriehof Speyer installation with Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany" data-caption="Mordancage 1 and 2, Industriehof Speyer installation with Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5d91e8b8622c9e23ed3c80afc4c97f984d02fe7f5670b3c4a43e7155c24a9d8/_24A2042-HDR.jpg" /> “Distorting processes from photographic history, the vibrant patterns in these reliefs are caused by violent chemical reactions. In applying mordançage solutions to silver gelatin prints, Nelson bleaches selected areas and simultaneously lifts specific dark hues of the emulsion. This late 19th century technique is commonly appreciated for its stark contrasts, precise contours, and depths of light applied to create life-like portraits. In appropriating the historical process, Nelson suspends virtuosity and representation as photographic ideals. The works gouge a different potential application of the chemical bonds and—in continuation of feminist and queer abstraction—unfetter the constraints of resemblance to real-world referents. They call to mind Luciana Parisi’s cyberfeminist theory of microfeminine particle-forces emerging from non-linear reactions between potential and actual desires, resulting in intensifications of mutant desires.” - Stefanie Hessler