MADISON NASH

Madison is a photographer, writer, musician, maker from Atlanta, GA living in Brooklyn, NY. her work involves unsophisticated storytelling, aimlessness and discomfort, constructed timelines belonging to nowhere in particular. growing up in the south has influenced how her work sounds, feels, and looks; there is an obvious attraction to objects/language/spaces that have an unsettling character. growing up detaching herself from family roots throughout appalachia – in time morphed into a fervious salvaging of history and memory–left. she is haunted by her dreams and writes to fill up many leather spiral bound journals engraved on the front with the single word ‘journal.’ a union of onion-skin papers fed through a typewriter, in tangent with film photographs , are a beloved part of her practice.currently she is consumed in undertaking a hunger to visit all of the 50 states. 
 
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02 i dream of genie
Senior Thesis: I dream of genie

May 2024



artist statement

I DONT WANT TO FORGET A WOMAN IVE NEVER MET AND I STILL COULD NOT TELL YOU WHY.
IMOGENE HERRING, MY GRANDMOTHER, CASTS A BLUE HAZE OVER THE FAMILY; SHE WAS A PHOTOGRAPHER, SECRET HOLDER, UNWED MOTHER, CLOSET ALCOHOLIC, MENSA MEMBER, ADOPTEE AND RUNAWAY.

THIS INSTALLATION IS A FORCED CONFRONTATION OF THE PAST ADDRESSING MEMORY AND SECRET HOLDING; A SYNONYMOUS COMBINATION IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. IN DECEMBER 2023 I INTERVIEWED MY MOTHER WHILE VISITING CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. I WANTED TO DOCUMENT MY FAMILY'S ORAL HISTORY TO — MASS EXODUS IMOGENES SHAME THAT SHE CARRIED WITH HER UNTIL DEATH AND PASSED ONTO WHO SHE IS SURVIVED BY. STORYTELLING IS THE PRODUCT OF LIVING; I HAVE IMPERFECTLY TIPTOED THE LINE BETWEEN CURIOSITY AND HARM TO FIND ANSWERS. SELFISHLY, TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY I HAVE STRUCTURED MY OWN LIFE ON BEHALF OF FAMILY WOUNDS AND ALTRUISTICALLY TO LIE VERSIONS OF THE PAST TO REST.

I OPEN THE AUDIENCE TO EXPERIENCE AUDITORY AND VISUAL STORYTELLING IN A CONTEXT OF UNCERTAINTY. IT IS CONTINGENT ON THE TIMING ONE ENGAGES WITH THE MATERIAL AND THE LEVEL OF EXPOSURE DESIRED [ AUDIO/VISUAL OR SINGULAR COMPONENT]. WITHIN THE EXHIBITION THERE ARE PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS, FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS DOCTORED BY HAND, WRITINGS ON MY RESEARCH AND OBJECTS REPRESENTATIVE OF MY GRANDMOTHER IMOGENE.

IMOGENE HERRING ( 23 DECEMBER 19XX- 4 JULY 1994)
RESTING IN THE CHARLESTON HARBOR




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