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Across this really tall field again in the dark
Phoebe Osborne

GALLERY III

Phoebe Osborne, “Their voices were sheer music, so spirit-like that no human ear could detect the sound, just as no eye on earth could see their forms.” (05:12:00), 2021, colored pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.

September 10 - October 9, 2022

Opening reception: Saturday, September 10 from 6-8pm

Silent walk with artist: September 22, 2022 from 6–8pm

Closing reception, with performances by invited artists: October 9, 2022 from 6pm–8pm

The birds buoyed the branches until they made a choice to leave, separately together


Biological, without origin, inexhaustibly so


You are someone else


Sharp rate


Of change, We upheaves


Disparately, rocky


Road, a repeated true thing


Talking to the mark


You insist on being


The road is neon in daylight


Is our rigor of trespass


Of Our


Our our unowned, where


Does the water perceive its own


Position in space, devoted, public


Unaffiliated, crustaceous


Your voice deletes, you repeat


The message, this time in limestone


Near it but never close enough


To be confused with it


A red line tracks


Time, insisting, one


Inch per one hundred


Years, you’re tracing, you’re obsessive, you’re careful, laborious, you’re zealous, you’re overwhelm, you’re cavernous, isolated, gathered, you’re repulsed, attracted, pulling and drawing


You’re ill and alive


If a void of space, then full


Then telling


Telling salinity


You searched for “horses at night”


You wrote it in charcoal on black


Brackish in its blurry state


Like land, vocal


If swallowing silence, then sounding


You put them in your own mouth, you mouthed their words


In salinity


You say them again, you graph your devotion


To absence, you dance it


This really tall field again in the dark


Carolyn Ferrucci, 2022


“I like to stand near it, but never close enough to be confused with it.” – Renee Gladman, on truth, in Am I a Fiction? // Three Lectures on Invisibility, Fictional Knowing and Writing-Drawing, an Arizona State University lecture moderated by Natalie Diaz


Inexhaustibly so, rocky road, void of space, brackish in its blurry state, swallowing silence, all pulled from A True Love’s Kiss, 2022 essay by artist Phoebe Osborne

In recent years, 2021–2022 A.I.R. Fellow Phoebe Osborne has generated distinctive works that follow the incommensurable currents of transing and the care it generates. As the latest outcome of this practice, Across this really tall field again in the dark brings drawing, lip syncing, and vibratory residue to act as storytellers, gathering seemingly fragmented details and lacing them together as a stealth walk in the night. Osborne holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MA in Choreography from DAS Graduate School at the Amsterdam University of Arts. Osborne’s works have been presented at venues including Transmediale Berlin, Bar Laika by e-flux, Southern Exposure, and The Boiler | Pierogi Gallery, and have been commissioned by SFMoMA, Oakland Museum of California, and Lenfest Center for the Arts, among others.

View the Press Release here.

View Phoebe Osborne’s page here.





True Loves Kiss is a listening essay by Phoebe Osborne

1 hour, 16 minutes

Sound design: Wibke Tiarks

learn more here

Public Program:

Silent Walk with Phoebe Osborne

Thursday, September 22, 2022, 6 PM

A.I.R. Gallery












Photography: Sebastian Bach