Join us for a screening of Patrick O’Hare’s “The Light at Dusk,” a photo-montage film that interweaves still photographs of New York City and upstate New York with a spoken text dealing with themes of memory, time, and the uncanny.

Both the stills and the poems are at times fragmented, cryptic, and on the edge of a disembodied state of awareness. The exploration is of a city as a lonely void, and the country as a place of haunted shapes and forms, that eventually merge with each other and produce a state of mind that transcends the idea of regions and embraces a kind of perpetual transition, impermanence, uncertainty, and foreboding.

The forces and refractions of weather and visual phenomenon in both urban infrastructure and the rural and small-town landscapes provide gestures of a fragile beauty that hover on the edge of futility. A cinematic narrative that follows the contours, specters, illuminations, and visual portals of the everyday.

The short screening will be followed by a discussion with Brent Wahl, a multi-media artist whose photography stages questions about collective identity, our relationship to reality and perception, and the ways we frame our existence. Through ambiguity, contextual, and optical shifts, his work reveals unexpected connections and complicates meaning within the frame. Wahl is a Senior Lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

Following the conversation, O’Hare’s new book “Memories of a Weather Exposed Skeleton” will be available for purchase, alongside his 2020 release, “Evanescent Cities.” O’Hare’s exhibit in our front room, his short film, and his latest book share many of the same images, allowing audiences the opportunity to engage with his work in a range of formats.

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