30/01/2021
THE SUBURBAN PRESENTS:
Sonja Thomsen: Marginal Notes
January 30, 2021 – March 31, 2021
THE SUBURBAN
723 S 5th St, Milwaukee, WI 53204
708-305-2657
www.thesuburban.org
Marginal Notes is an evolving installation of photographs, light modulations and architectural interventions at The Suburban by artist Sonja Thomsen whose installations present wonder as a radical way to imagine post-patriarchal futures. Marginal Notes is an exercise in moving the locus of attention to the margins, embracing entanglements and the radical act of “putting oneself into the text through her own movement.” (Hélène Cixous)
Simultaneous to the exhibition is the release of Thomsen’s book You Will Find It Where It Is: A Reader, published by Poor Farm Press. The book offers a lens through which she reframes history, and reexamines the legacies of artists Margaret Fuller, Lucia Moholy, and Maria Nordman among others. Thomsen is reflecting on her location as a woman working in abstraction, trained in the sciences, whose practice is beguiled by the plurality of light. The title of the exhibition borrows form Lucia Moholy’s 1972 essay Marginalien zu Moholy-Nagy/Moholy-Nagy, Marginal Notes in which she corrects inaccuracies written into the narrative of she and László Moholy-Nagy histories.
The gallery will be open by appointment. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic Thomsen will also host virtual conversations and workshop potential collaborations, using the Suburban as a laboratory for discovery.
