Primordial Ocean (2022)
collaborative installation with Saloni Parekh
Press Release from Gallery 1010, October 15, 2022:
Primordial Ocean is a two-person exhibition featuring collaborative installation by Saloni Parekh and Emily Rice. Primordial Ocean explores the basic vibrations of sound that might have existed at the beginning of time. The installation consists of a soil drawing and interactive pieces that allow witnesses to experience the sounds of preexistence through play. Parekh and Rice offer a physical and visual aid to the primordial. By creating these sound experiments in a dimensional and painterly way, the artists anticipate the discovery of something unexpected.
About the collaborators:
Saloni Parekh’s work celebrates the complexity of symbolism and iconography of Hinduism by examining traditions, rituals, and bhakti (devotional) practices of India. Her work explores the ancient Indian text Veda focusing on the 129th Hymn of Rig Veda, ‘Hymn of Creation’. The agnostic approach in the hymn about the creator and creation fuels her imagination to a newly objectified realm of mythical symbiosis.
Emily Rice engages with fragmentation, post-apocalyptic realities, and sustainable resurrection through material handling and direct observation. Investigating what is torn, broken and dead, and then reshaping these materials is their alchemical method for transfiguration and a way to gather all of time together. These are their manifestations and comprehensions of a believed and beloved reality through an exploration of the fascia between relationships and time.
Additionally exhibited through The In Art Gallery’s online gallery