uncomfortable as i am: Solo Exhibition by Dakota Parkinson

Opening Reception: July 13, from 5-9pm
July 13-31

“There is a great weight hanging, something like an accusation, like a sword, like God- like an institution built brick-by-brick above, below, and around. Do you not see it? Can you not feel it?”

Through ceramic sculpture, installation and performance, uncomfortable as i am demands empathy from the viewer. 

Using her literal body and clay as the allegorical same, Dakota confronts the ideas of discomfort and transness with a challengingly intimate lens. In video performance, she offers vulnerability to the onlooker, inviting them to disarm themselves of preconceived notions and act as witnesses. 

Through faceless clay sculpture, Dakota invites the ability to inhabit, if for a moment, another’s body.