ELIZABETH CONN-HOLLYN
BORDERS/BOUNDARIES: KASHMIR
MAY 19-JUNE 9
OPENING RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 6–9 PM
321 Gallery presents a dual-projection of Borders/Boundaries: Kashmir, the second iteration of Elizabeth Conn-Hollyn’s ongoing “Borders/Boundaries” project. This is Conn-Hollyn’s first solo show in New York City.
Over the past decade, Conn-Hollyn’s work has focused on both the literal and abstract concept of borders. Among her various projects, she has photographed “Welcome To…” signs between state lines; attempted to take studio portraits of everyone she knows in order to analyze her social network; operated a drone to create introspective videos of its own flight paths; and used Google Earth to create fly-over investigations of the border between the US and Mexico. Making work that is objective in appearance, Conn-Hollyn uses a variety of media to create typologies addressing the powers that control the shifting landscape we inhabit, and the issues arising from the bureaucratic representations of borders. Her focus lies with what is misrepresented and who is not pictured. In Borders/Boundaries: Kashmir (2018), Conn-Hollyn presents two video projections, Zoom Toggle Don’t Blink and Line of Control Border Tour, two works that explore the Kashmir region through publicly available satellite maps and imagery of the contested military control line between the Indian and Pakistani controlled zones of the territory. She has created soundtracks to accompany the videos.
Elizabeth Conn-Hollyn (b. 1987, Santa Monica, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. She uses video, photography, cartography and drawing to examine the hegemonic depictions of geopolitical border regions and networks. Recent projects directly related to her practice include “Research Reventón” (Tijuana, MX & Los Angeles, CA) and “Everybody I Know” at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA). Recent exhibitions include Border/Boundaries: US at the New Wight Gallery (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA) and Hello Earth at Loom Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). She is a recipient of the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, multiple travel and research grants from UCLA, and was a fellow at The Artist Project of Los Angeles. Conn-Hollyn graduated with a BA in photography from Bard College and received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.