lexi welch: Under the eyelid’s mildness reception
Under the eyelid’s mildness is an installation at OPEN by artist lexi welch, which situates Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus along lusty mixtape techno-logics. In Rilke’s text—55 poems written feverishly during three weeks in the winter of 1922—Orpheus emerges as a character whose journey charts connections between loss and transformation, sweetness and death, wherein solitude proposes atemporal encounters with the other. Here, welch saturates the gallery in bass, playing the room as Orpheus’ lyre. Pitched-down vocals are played through two subwoofers—their drivers facing OPEN’s walls—resulting in a subtle rattling of the room’s architecture and its visitors. The exhibition will run Thursdays through Sundays from sunset to sunrise, its duration extending along with the annual expansion of night hours.
OPEN
50 Sims Ave, Providence
External Link:
https://www.openforever.org/on-view/lexi-welch-under-the-eyelids-midlness