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.
Gogol’s Disco is undoubtedly Matsin’s strongest work to date. His characteristically cryptic, erratic plot and intertextuality, which can be difficult for the common reader, has receded, though it hasn’t completely disappeared! The strengths of Matsin’s energetic inner world are amplified in Gogol’s Disco: a bizarre, dream-like atmosphere populated with colourful characters and absurd situations. Absorbing influences from history, alchemy, mysticism, and literature, Matsin here offers a clearer text, while not losing his ability to create a magical and grotesque world: one which won’t submit to classification by genre. By combining his sense of humour, absurdity and erudition, Matsin has created an original and liberating vision that even offers a moral: even when situations or conditions change drastically, life tends to go on and surprise us.