Rowan Renee: Solo Exhibition

Rowan Renee Solo Exhibition: No Spirit For Me (2019) and Bodies of Wood (2016) on Governors Island, KODA House 404b on Colonels Row. June 25, 2022-July 24, 2022. ​

No Spirit For Me (2019)

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“In 2018, I acquired the contents of my father’s criminal case file from the Florida State Attorney who prosecuted him. The file included the official records used to condemn my father – court records, witness statements and police evidence photographs. Through these documents, I was able to track how the justice process failed in a case that the State hailed as an example of justice served.

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Using lithography, weaving and metalwork, I re-presented over 1000 pages of these records as “hanging files” in a fictitious police evidence room. The repetitive motions of printing 1000 pages through an etching press, of tracing the shapes of redaction on the loom, of welding dozens of steel joints was…