The project has paired US visual artists with Europe Readr authors, inviting them to depict their own perception of the works read in a variety of media. The artworks will be on display in a re-designed storefront gallery, encouraging dialogue on inclusive and sustainable living on both continents.
The project "A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art" officially launched on 27 September 2021 with an exhibition of the artwork of Hoesy Corona, inspired by Lukas Juliger's "Unfollow" and Alanna Reeves, in response to Roser Capdevila's "The City". The series of short exhibitions featuring eleven visual artists from the Washington D.C. region will be running until 23 January 2022. The featured artists include Hoesy Corona, Alanna Reeves, Mike Thron, Michal Gavish, Julie Wills, MK Bailey, Antonio McAfee, Emily Fussner, Stephanie Williams, Lionel Frazier White III, and Sobia Ahmad.
The featured exhibiting artists’ works will explore a diverse range of themes, including vulnerability, the natural world, identity, the competing needs of business and ecology, nostalgia, and the limitations of our physical bodies.
Take a look at the upcoming exhibitions on the Plain Sight website and be sure to call in at Plain Sight on 3218 Georgia Avenue to see the exhibitions for yourself.
‘Gast Groeber’s short stories in Every Day Just Hides Another put the focus on characters that increasingly distance themselves from their usual surroundings. The story ‘A Village Idyll’ describes the life of a man who has been ostracized by the villagers ever since he ran over a boy with his car. Groeber smartly shows how the real circumstances of the accident, which have an essential influence on our moral judgement, are no longer taken into consideration at all once the culprit is found. Groeber’s description of the threat to the individual by the Others is also cleverly done: in these stories, it is never clear from the start whether the threat is merely imaginary or very real. Interpersonal relations float between the superficial and a precarious intimacy.
What should be highlighted in Every Day Just Hides Another is the obvious desire to achieve a consistent topical conception that only a few texts don’t follow. Groeber also aims at a decidedly literate, yet always natural language, which is quite an achievement given the limited stock of role models. The attempt for example to construe a character perspective using only impersonal phrases and infinitives that the author makes in ‘The Unbearable Weight of Waiting’ is utterly successful.’