In person / Exhibition / Multiple Techniques
This exhibition begins from the understanding that movement and migration are inherent to life and that with movement comes exchange, transformation, and the possibility of new forms. How can we leave room to interact with, learn from, and be transformed by beings, traditions, and cultures different from ourselves without being appropriative and extractive? What becomes possible when we embrace polyphony over purity?
Here, boundaries are porous, materials metamorphose, and differences are embedded in webs of relationships. Traditions, materials, and textile techniques not usually combined sit side by side, converse, and reshape one another in the process.
In a world shaped by both forced and chosen movement, Syncretism invites reflection on the shared human impulse to create meaning in motion, and on the radical potential of blending, rather than separating, ways of being.
Romilly Rinck is a visual artist, material researcher, and educator based in New York, NY. Working in sculpture and installation, she explores embodied materialities through traditional textile techniques and experimental material processes. Romilly received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design (2023) and her BA in History of Art and Material Studies from University College London (2015). She has been an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation and LMCC's Arts Center Residency in New York. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design.
Jasmin Risk is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Their work has been exhibited and performed at Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery (NY), The Zetland Basement (UK), Recession Art (Brooklyn), Dixon Place (NY), Dye House 451 (UK), The Glasshouse (NY), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), among others. Risk’s work is featured in numerous publications, including Girls Get Busy Zine and Luma Quarterly. Risk earned their BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons in 2016, and their MFA in Textiles at Parsons in 2023. Risk is a recipient of the 2022 MFA Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) scholarship.