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Lee Hunter: Cosmogenesis

January 25–August 8, 2022
Lee Hunter, The Devil's Playground at Dawn; Near the portal in E00085; Popular Mining Parallel; E00032, 2020; custom printed fabric and thread; 96 x 114 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Lee Hunter’s multidisciplinary practice explores our relationship with nature, and the narrowing gap between apocalyptic fiction and the reality of climate change. Hunter is interested in creating new worlds from our existing world, mining humans’ ability to think about the future, and using imagination to explore new worlds. Disinterested in utopia or dystopia, Hunter instead focus on how speculative fabulation can critique the society we live in and create space for dreaming new, viable futures.

Set in the near future, Hunter’s Cosmogenesis is an ongoing world-building project told through the perspective of an archivist making her way through the ephemera and material culture of legendary twenty-first century transdimensional travel cults. The archive comprises photographs, videos, sculptures, and found objects, each part of coded systems that reveal secret methods of travel through parallel universes.

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The Artists

Lee Hunter: Cosmogenesis is supported by the Kohler Trust for Arts and Education, the Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable TrustKohler Foundation, Inc., and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts 

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