Lynn Marie Kirby (San Francisco, USA)

July 18th - 31st, 2022

Lynn Marie Kirby’s residency at CasCaDas ArtSpace sprouted from our connection to Barcelona-based gallery Chiquita Room. During Kirby’s residency at Chiquita Room, she carries out a process of listening to the neighborhood of Sant Antoni through walks and spontaneous encounters. In this willingness to listen otherwise, Lynn opens to connections and elements that surround us. While at CCD ArtSpace, Kirby carried a similar process and the culmination of this research will be an edition published by Chiquita Room.

Lynn Marie Kirby works in a variety of time-based forms, including film, public installation and performance, engaging our relationship to place, often with text, often with collaborators.Lately she has performed site interventions outside and alongside established art systems enlarging the idea of the exhibition and its relation to the public. Each of Kirby’s projects map emotional topographies, her most recent work uses practices of attunement, scent, taste, and touch to explore expanded embodied perception beyond the visual and aural, to engage with the public in the history of particular sites. In addition to her site embedded and interventional work, Kirby’s work has shown in galleries, museums, and film festivals around the world; generous foundations have supported her projects. She is a professor of film and fine arts at California College of the Arts.

On the 28th of July, Lynn Marie Kirby and Liliana Díaz performed I Listen, you nourish me, taking reference from Lucy R. Lippard’s book I See / You Mean, where they had a mutual exchange through words and listening. For more information, check here.

Photograph by Alexis Joseph