LOCUS OF A GESTURE

Filter Photo is pleased to present _Locus of a Gesture_, a three-person exhibition curated by Kristie Kahns, featuring work by David Ondrik, Dakota Mace, and Daniel Hojnacki. Foregoing the camera for a more intuitive approach to the medium, these artists create images that traverse the edge between agency and automatism, exploring the active gesture and the receptive surface as essential elements. From their embodied practices, a photographic disclosure unfolds—one that is not an indexical imprint, a representation, or a copy but an analogy, as cultural theorist Kaja Silverman has argued. In this way, the cameraless photographs of Hojnacki, Mace, and Ondrik reside at the locus of human perception, combining the action of light and a sublime sense of materiality to forestall what Silverman calls the miracle of analogy—the affective eruption of the past into the present. Drawing from multivalent sources of memory—from family to land to respiration—these artists use photography as a method for dealing with grief, transmitting ancestral knowledge, or translating the pulse and rhythms of the body.