DMST ATELIER
ALL THE (HEALING) PARTS
ART EXHIBITION
All The (Healing) Parts is an art exhibition featuring Faith-Ann Young’s photographic textile and mixed media sculptures, on display from Sept 14th to October 19th, 2024, at DMST Atelier at 4606 W. Washington Blvd in Los Angeles.
A duo exhibition with painter Shizuka Kusayanagi, the exhibition examines the multi-dimensionality of one's identity, emotional landscape, and the interwoven process of healing. The exhibit also includes photo composites and interactive elements, including an interactive zen sand garden created by the artist.
Combined with abstract painting and stream-of-conscious sketches by Kusayanagi, the two Japanese-Californian artists have created a soft, safe, accessible space for healing for the community as a means of combating communal malaise, exhaustion, trauma, and dis-ease through creation, installation, sound, meditative activity, community meals, + conversation.
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Exhibition views Photo Credit: Leah Rom
Faith-Ann’s latest installation draws inspiration from Japanese Shinto philosophy and ancient crafts, magical realism, and astrology.
For the Sun/ Moon series, she created a collection of 7 unique digital composites - layering photographs she has taken over the years, of the sun and moon, sun-dappled shadows, forests in Japan, escapes to the desert, even photos of her own abstract brush strokes done in moments of ease and pain - all which she has merged into double-exposure-esque, dream-like photo compositions that are evocative of memory as well as of our unconscious.
Hung ceremoniously in a vertical line, they evoke Japanese “noren” (curtains), while also symbolizing the passage of life - the many, many suns and moons we witness in our cycle of life.
As viewers traverse the installation, it encourages moments of reflection and recollection - a reminder to make the most of our finite time here.
"All The Healing Parts" Exhibition - Sun / Moon Series. DMST Atelier. 4606 W. Washington Blvd. Flag installation
