APRIL 6 - MAY 5, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 5:30-8PM

anxiety is a love I cannot break up with

a plus/space installation by

Juliet Martin

This room is Juliet Martin’s fiber memoir. Using traditional techniques of weaving and drawing, she has created sculptural pieces infused with the language of love, loss, and anxiety. This installation combines drawings, hand- and machine-woven fabrics, banners of text, printmaking, wooden blocks and, most important, glitter. A repeating image of a blue ribcage protects from the anxiety that causes too much pain. Martin’s love of fiber and illustration and sculpture, both as a technique and a symbolic presence, imbues these emotional, often humorous pieces. The longest relationship she’s ever had is with anxiety – it terrorizes yet motivates. Her insecurity invokes her detail-oriented process and opens herself to the audience. She can’t help tell a story any other way. 

As you enter the Plus/Space, you are at the head of the table, a table draped in blue fake fur, jarring yet comforting. Over 40 little boxes, wrapped in fabric, illustrations, and glitter, shout messages of fear and anxiety. Scattered amid the imagery is the repeated symbol of the ribcage, dusted in turquoise glitter, the hors d'oeuvre for the evening. Hanging on the facing wall, across the table, is a hand-woven tapestry, a standing figure with an abstract, body-length ribcage, as if in fiber body armor, a dinner companion for the viewer. On the next wall on the right is a larger-than-life ribcage, glitter-encrusted, comically reiterating the desperation of protection against anxiety. When you exit the room, farewell monoprints, similar in imagery to the little boxes, wish you on your way.

julietmartin.com
@remotelyjuliet

GALLERY HOURS:

Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Crystal Hudson, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.