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The Poetics of Error: in Conversation with Steven Leyden Cochrane Regarding his Exhibition Shining Tapestry
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 | Jase Falk
I first saw Winnipeg-based artist Steven Leyden Cochrane at the talk for his exhibit Shining Tapestry which was displayed at aceartinc. during the fall of 2018. Combining digital and craft mediums, the exhibition largely explores the death of Cochrane’s mother in 2006. The way his talk engaged with the histories of the materials he uses, along with the complex ways he was thinking around language, memory, and gender convinced me that I wanted to explore these ideas with Cochrane more in-depth. Cochrane describes himself as a conceptual artist; as someone who is interested in constructing projects through a set of instructions, or through a pattern. Yet his work explores the unpredictability of this construction process, where one fails to follow a pattern or where the directions for constructing a piece...