Rossendale

Description:

Rossendale was a solo exhibition of Alison Hrabluik, with  stop-motion video and miniatures. Hrabluik looked at the farmer as an inventor and augmenter: DIY traits passed down through generations. 

The objects created by the farmer are reproduced by Hrabluik for video. The pastoral setting is scaled down in dioramic form. These accidental portraits portrayed the farmer as industrious, meticulous, fallible, and stoic. They also operated as analogies to the small-farm industry—an industry sometimes considered superfluous in light of new technologies. The objects (including a garbage burning oven, hydraulic wood chopper, water well, and appendages for a tractor) delineated examples of the composition and sculptural skills the farmer has developed. When seen together their anthropomorphic nature recalls a magic realism that sets the stage for theatrics not normally associated with the above connotations.

Curated by Candice Hopkins.