Hunting for Ambrosia

Jasmine Dillavou

Join us for an opening on Friday, May 2nd, 5-9 pm. 

Artist talk on May 15th at 5:30 pm.

The exhibit will be on display through May 30th.

 

About the exhibit:

The way we are ushered into womanhood is a layered and confusing business. 

Hunting for Ambrosia orbits around that journey through a material exploration of femininity. Here, Dillavou's assemblages employ the ingredients of girlhood- blending the lines between play pretend and performing woman-ness. 

The work centers the artist's own bittersweet and complex nostalgia through the use of personal imagery, makeup, vintage lingerie, domestic linens, barbed wire and preserved florals. 

This work paints girlhood as a body in transformation and through a series of feminine idioms. Attempting to define where the artist’s girlhood ends and womanhood begins, the job of the work is to organize conflicting feelings of transition and permanence. These emerge from choreographed materials referencing her own gendered-ness. A made up thing. 

This work is a nod to that constant grappling with a desire to be soft and a demand to be hardened. To be both the bearer of breaking and one with the permission to break. 

 

About the Artist:

Jasmine Dillavou is a Boricua poet, performer,curator and educator based out of Colorado Springs. She is interested in experiences of womanhood interpreted through performance and performance-aftermath. Dillavou seeks to expand her role as a cultural storyteller, using her artworks to pass intergenerational wisdom and honor the voices of her communities. She believes the artist's job is to shift deficit narratives and disrupt unjust systems by imaging a world of liberation and celebration.