Phoebe Boswell
‘Take Me To The Lighthouse’, Exhibition text, SAPAR CONTEMPORARY, New York: 2018e
As I lay in that hospital bed, attached to the machine, in the high dependency cardiac wing, eye bulbous and blurry, the woman in the bed next to me kept calling out to the darkness, “Take me to the lighthouse”, delirious, and I kept wondering how on earth I got here, where on earth my lighthouse was, and how I was going to begin to process it all.
SAPAR Contemporary is pleased to present Take Me To The Lighthouse, the first US solo exhibition of Kenyan-British artist Phoebe Boswell. Boswell’s multimedia practice centers around a delicate diasporic consciousness of personal identity, collective memory, and what it means to belong. In a characteristically immersive and intimate presentation, this new body of work layers several aspects of Boswell's varied artistic vocabulary, including small-scale, large, and site-specific drawings, video, interactive installations, and spoken word. Located within a broad history of portraiture and landscape painting, the work weaves a self-referential narrative of trauma, grief, and healing into a wider exploration of the interiority of the female body through nature, the selfie, and the sublime.