The Animal Within the Animal
October 6- 27, 2024

Ana Maria Farina and Hanna Washburn present The Animal Within the Animal, a vibrant visual conversation that shares the many ways their practices intertwine. Both artists are mothers who use materials associated with the home and femininity to communicate the power and expansiveness of the body. Their distinct visual styles meld to create a collaborative tale, narrating complex corporeal joys and burdens. The works fuse imagery of the body with creatures, highlighting the mammal inside each of us. Plush, comforting textures and familiar domestic patterns
come together to create hybrid forms, simultaneously maternal, familiar, and uncanny. Play is key to this collaboration—exploration and humor exist alongside the weightiness of the subject matter. Everything in the exhibition is in the process of growing and changing: lengthening forms and limbs, reaching out toward a shared understanding. In The Animal Within the Animal, Farina and Washburn create new bodies that are free to be concurrently nurturing, seductive, strange, and distinctly autonomous.