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Gabrielle
Jesiolowski
When Gabrielle Jesiolowski creates an object or alters an ecology in three dimensional space, she is admitting that language is failing—the ink pen dried to ashy black, the sturdy type letters- brittle fences / She is looking to feel connected to her body; She is looking for her breath and her hands in the material; She is looking for the landscape in the material; She is seeking out an exchange (political, personal, ecological & aesthetic). Jesiolowski began her study & practice of visual arts as a poet / She has always been a gatherer, a recycler of image, object & language. Her poems reuse their materials— the same cut hair or linseed oil appearing again and again as a condition, a way for a reader (and for her) to travel through the poems—a way to remind herself of the impossibility (politically and personally) of ever really arriving.
Gabrielle Jesiolowski's current body of work is interested in erasures, departures, arrivals, the future of nostalgia and belonging; it inquires about rooting, rerouting, finding home and issues of the temporal body. She attempts to build a language with techniques of etching, drawing, mapping, diagramming, and sculpting. Her work offers us the chance to stand in the borderlands between urgency and peace, between a poetics of memory and the chance of forgetting. Jesiolowski is interested in reclaiming materials, grinding pigments and the process of working through text by making visual work.
Jesiolowski is an artist, poet and curator currently living in Ithaca, New York. She is an MFA candidate at cornell where she studies nomadic architecture, dance composition and installation. Jesiolowski hopes to one day open an experimental school with a farm stand, community art center and a library/meditation barn.
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