Working Spaces: Solo Show Projects – Twilight Wires
Christine Callahan
July 2022
Brooklyn, NY
Installed in Chaska Jurado’s Office
Curated by Chaska Jurado and Sasha Louis Bush
Curatorial Statement
We notice the answers not given in Christine Callahan’s solo exhibition Twilight Wires. We’re drawn to her photographs for the many questions they hold – do photographs have sounds? What does cold snow smell like? And what time of day is ruby red?
And afterwards, we notice the quiet. Christine’s color pallet is precise and razor sharp, a mix of luscious blues, purples, and greens. We often associate these colors with a booming, sonic energy and yet Christine’s photographs lead you away from this energy, towards new paths full of surprises.
Look closely and you will find many delightful contrasts. Observe the subtle and unmistakable rippling of crackling energy that hums and buzzes as tranquility and restlessness collide together in each composition.
In one representative photograph a TV sits in a darkened living room, a common enough occurrence. And yet, the room is cast in shadow, lit only by the orange and green glow of Christmas lights framing the windows. And on the TV’s screen, a cobalt sky full of clouds, cut in half by the scorching white streak of lightning.
We are looking at a projected image on a digital screen. Of course, we tell ourselves, it is impossible to see a storm appear within the walls of our living room. Still, as with all of the pictures in Twilight Wires, this photograph invites us to suspend our disbelief and enjoy the vivid juxtaposition of greens, oranges and blues, that together offer the distinctly strange and wonderful possibility of a rainstorm dropping onto our carpeted floor.
– Sasha Louis Bush
Twilight Wires – Installation View
Twilight Wires - Zine - Published September 2022
