In FOYER-LA’s current project, proximity, Connie Walsh explores the tension between intimate and inaccessible spaces. The viewer crosses a threshold onto a plywood floor raised fifteen inches off the ground: a pedestal for half spherical ceramic sculptures that contain hidden voids. These sculptures, of varying shades of tan, seem to float with weight above the surface in clusters. Both the architectural intervention and the placement of the photographs shifts the viewer’s relationship to an implied horizon. The images themselves compress or disorient space, holding the viewer in a suspended moment of intimacy.

Connie Walsh

Zing Magazine interview by Jane McFadden