Hands Remain Still, 2009
Collaboration between Tannaz Farsi, Elissa Cox, & Petra Kralickova

Artists Farsi, Cox and Kralickova explore the intensity and nuance of the human form. Though different in visual composition, their work depicts the possessive landscape of human emotions that collide in a vortex of desire, dislocation and longing. Individually, this can be seen in the intensity of each artist's focal engagement by the juxtaposition of skin as a porous structure that filters memory and draws out the physicality of the body into an abstracted landscape.

For the Tacoma Contemporary, Farsi, Cox and Kralickova used various means of communication other then face-to-face contact, to produce a collaborative project titled HANDS REMAIN STILL. The collaborative project stems from the urge to remain connected despite the locality of each artist and echoes the poetics of perception as experienced through distance and remoteness. Three original texts from the artists are integrated and assembled to create temporal play on words that can be read both in horizontal and vertical columns as dictated by the window brakes. The words create a syncopation that alludes to concrete location while juxtaposing temporary expressions of longing and placelessness.

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