“hither and thither” brings together the work of Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Mary Lum, and Andrew Ordonez. These four artists are working within the composite mediums of collage and assemblage; layering scraps of everyday images and objects, they create the potential for the works to resonate broadly. Here, amidst the amalgamation of material, substrate is lost, muddied, or obfuscated to create a sense of wear with implications of use and use value. An aesthetic of erosion, or patina, carries both the enigma of what has transpired and veneration for what has sustained, collapsing the distance between both individual and collective resonances, or “the hither and thither,” as referred to by Homi K. Bhaba.
