Julia Haft-Candell + Maria Kozak | Dissolving Margins

The exhibition title references an Italian term central to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels ‘smarginatura,’ translated as ‘dissolving margins’ by Ann Goldstein, and described as “the sensation of moving a few fractions of a second into a person or a thing or a number of a syllable, violating its edges.”

Drawing inspiration from the occult and esoteric orders, Kozak began her recent paintings with digital sketches, intuitively manipulating two color fields until desirable forms emerge. The central subject of this body of work are the cyclical, irresolvable interactions that emerge from the classic dichotomies of the human condition, such as physical/spiritual, control/surrender or stillness/movement. Like Kozak, Haft-Candell is materially and conceptually interested in liminal space and the subversive interaction of dichotomies. Also beginning with intuitive gestures, Haft-Candell models clay objects into a growing lexicon of forms she has spent years developing. Dissolving Margins highlights conceptual and formal reverberations between Kozak and Haft-Candell’s distinct practices. In sensuous oil paintings and ceramic sculptures that that trace the body while gesturing towards abstraction, forms seep, bleed and interlock through the alchemy of touch.

About the Artists

Julia Haft-Candell (b. 1982, Oakland, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Maria Kozak (b. 1981, Krakow, Poland) is an artist living and working between upstate New York and Krakow, Poland. Kozak will be in Minneapolis from October 10 - November 2 as an invited resident of The Cloud House, located adjacent to Dreamsong. 

Gallery Hours

Wednesday - Saturday: Noon - 5pm