This exhibition is about gun violence in Philadelphia—an ongoing crisis that claims lives, inflicts direct and indirect trauma, and leaves individuals, families, and communities in a perpetual state of mourning. Made in response to Towsley’s two years of living in Philadelphia, this never-ending violence is an acknowledgment of loss, an attempt to hold space for grief, and a confrontation with the dynamics of safety, privilege, and vulnerability.

Works Included

this never-ending violence, projected videoed performance (duration: 00:19:15), remnant map

jacquard weaving woven on TC2 loom, gun violence data translated into satin woven structure

undone, porcelain memorial vessel, handwritten text with black underglaze, red enamel paint, 13 x 15 x 18 cm