They Who Swallow A Fly

There once was a someone who swallowed a fly,
Why oh why’d they swallow the fly?
(I guess she’ll die)

"They Who Swallow A Fly" is a collection of cyanotype textiles depicting a marriage of flesh and bug created by Devin Gray Hull during their Photography & Digital Arts Residency.

How different is the feminine from an insect? Your eyes may behold lace and licorice but a mirror regards a squeamish exoskeleton. There is an ache in coming to terms with knowing oneself, how do you handle what there is to find? Use your earthly fingers to hold the crawling bugs, gently.

Join us for the opening reception on First Friday, August 2, from 6 - 9pm. This exhibition will be displayed in our Sunken Room Gallery until August 31.

Devin is a visual artist from Rochester, NY whose work interweaves photographic and textile arts. This intersection of modality interrogates threadbare geometries of gender and self-recognition in its various forms. Devin supposes that photography exists as a contradiction to the somatic self and questions, how can a body, which experiences such vast space within the constraints of a physical form, be obliged to know its geometries? Their work explores how identity can be personally confessed versus how it can be informed by society. Devin holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. See more of Devin's work at www.grahul.dev