Somehow, we find each other
Jen Everett
February – April 2021
“What does it mean to be living through this time? When our ways of knowing and being with each other have shifted so much. When we have lost so much. ‘Somehow, we find each other’ invites viewers to deeply consider this collective space of not knowing, to linger there rather than rush through it. These thoughts come up after spending most of the past several months in solitude. I am noticing much more as I look out of windows and take long meandering walks. Patterns and cycles are constantly unfolding in nature. Yet we remain caught up in the systems we’ve created. I am reminded that nature knows how to restore itself. I’m hopeful we can learn from that.”
Somehow, we find each other is the first of three installations as part of the Stories of Resistance exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, which explores artistic forms of resistance from across the world. Through visual narratives, artists amplify and bring to focus the multitude of conditions that ignite and inspire people to resist. The exhibition activates the entire museum space, inside and out, with video, photography, drawing, sculpture, painting, and installation.
About
Jen Everett is an artist from Southfield, Michigan, currently based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Broadly, she is interested in the myriad ways Black people continue to produce and transmit knowledge in excess of formal structures. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Jen’s recent work considers the relationship between rupture and Black interiority through an investigation of the materials we collect, the information we hold in our bodies and where the two may converge.