Nohra Haime Gallery: Say the Word Asunder

Detail, The Map is Not the Territory, photo credit: Rich Maciejewski

November 19- January 31, 2027

Say the Word Asunder examines a world built around the binary: recognized and unknown, discarded and cherished, fact and belief. In this exhibition, doubling happens through mimesis and translation. A hand-made still life is paired with its digital double, a nineteenth-century map is echoed in today’s digital slop, a sculpture is split into mirrored halves. Glass reflects and eludes, data fails and invents, and organic growth breaks through symmetry.

In Doppelgänger, a hand-made glass still life is scanned and modeled into a digital interpretation. Glass, notoriously elusive, leaves voids and distortions in the captured data. The two compositions are conjoined into a sculpture that slides between the original and its double. The Map is Not the Territory takes as its starting point Emma Willard’s 1845 Tree of Time, a seminal work of visual pedagogy created to teach young women history through the lens of geography. Color bleeds and text melts, drawing a parallel between Willard’s age of print and the digital age.

Heartland Table, the sister to Bergen Table (permanent collection of KODE museum in Bergen), reclaims donated and discarded glass and ceramics from the local community and reconfigures them into a collective structure, reflecting on care, exchange, and consumption. Miles’ Law makes duality literal. Split down the center into mirrored halves of clear and black glass, the sculpture is disrupted by biomorphic forms that grow through its composition, a contemplation on stasis and disruption.

Say the Word Asunder will be on view at Nohra Haime Gallery through January of 2027.