Phoebe Boswell | Liminal Beach
Wentrup is pleased to present Liminal Beach, the first solo exhibition by London-based artist Phoebe Boswell in Germany. A woman flings herself into the air on a secluded beach, her red dress lifting from the force of that leap, its color a vibrant splash against the blue sky and endless horizon. She is so exuberant that she seems to defy gravity. Any moment now, those graceful arms might carry her away beyond where we can see. Phoebe Boswell’s Liminal Deity could be a portrait of joy and exhilarating freedom. But that dress: it is both elegant and harrowing, made of either feathers or flesh. Its shade of red hovers on the edge of darkness. Those could be feathers whipping in the wind. It could also be tender flesh, disintegrating. It is flight in motion. It is a wound exposed. The shadow that seems to dance in front of this woman, could it be trying to flee? So much in this work is a suggestion: is this joy, or is this pain? It is impossible to know from her expression, the face is rendered featureless. Liminal Deity, like all of Phoebe Boswell’s art, dares us to give up our certainties. It challenges us to travel across uncharted territory, not for the sake of safety, but for a more complicated and layered understanding of all that can exist at once. In that space, Boswell asserts, lives possibility and even freedo
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, A Knowledge Becoming, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, A Knowledge Becoming, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, After the Burning, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, After the Burning, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, All Possible Everything, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, All Possible Everything, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, Bless the Boats, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, Bless the Boats, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, Future Ancestors, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, Future Ancestors, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, In Search of the Common Place, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, In Search of the Common Place, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, Liminal Deity, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, Liminal Deity, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, Ocean, 2022 Phoebe Boswell, Ocean, 2022
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, To Know The Weather, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, To Know The Weather, 2023
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, Universe, 2022 Phoebe Boswell, Universe, 2022
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                                 Phoebe Boswell, The Present Juncture of Entanglement, 2023 Phoebe Boswell, The Present Juncture of Entanglement, 2023

 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                