Full-cycle management of Tabitha Soren’s artist residency at Local Language, including artist selection, curatorial collaboration, scheduling, budget oversight, creative direction, and exhibition planning. The residency was guided by a collaborative approach to fabrication and design, with ongoing consultation on materials, processes, and production, and supporting the evolution of individual artworks from early ideation to fabrication.
Curatorial support included writing show materials and helping shape the presentation of two featured photographic series—Structuring Absence and Motherload—each of which challenges photography’s traditional role as a static record of time.
Motherload builds a dense visual field by layering thousands of images, interrogating how accumulated experience can distort or obscure perception. Structuring Absence invites slowness and intimacy through the use of translucent mesh and exposed stretcher bars, subverting the expectations of immediate visual clarity and traditional photographic presentation.
The residency emphasized material innovation, with works developed on unconventional substrates including metal mesh and repurposed bedsheets.