THE BURROW // January 15 - February 19, 2021

Larry Cedar

Camilo Godoy

Zebadiah Keneally

Irgin Sena

Paula Stuttman

I've built a hide even more perfectly camouflaged than my moss-covered entrance and into my hide I crawl. A shallow trench disguises the path and secretly I approach my post and observe. -- Franz Kafka, The Burrow

The works in this exhibition display private moments of self-reflection and discovery. Attempts at understanding one's own body, mind, and memory abound. The Burrow takes its title from Franz Kafka's unfinished short-story, delivered by Larry Cedar with a new translation by Howard Colyer. Adapted for performance on-stage, this recording was made in Cedar's home in quarantine.

Zebadiah Keneally's Bagman videos were made/performed on the edges of NYC sidewalks, shores, and fields. His character embodies a kind of ghost figure roaming the streets, listening, treading softly. He gets pushed around and plays. He is porous and vulnerable, light and clumsy, wanting and searching.

Paula Stuttman's work narrates a deconstruction and disappearance.

Irgin Sena's narration directs an attempt at reconstruction, holding place, invoking a lost time and archive of a moment.

Camilo Godoy's video was documented on his phone. Upon sharing the work last September 2019 he writes:
Last night I went to bed thinking about this stanza from a poem by Alice Walker:
This we know:
We were
not meant to suffer
so much
& to learn
nothing.