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Exhibition Opening Reception – Pride and Shame: A Remediation Journey
CSP is honored to host this exhibition by Minnesota artist Su Legatt. It is the culmination of a research-based art project created over the past year focusing on notions of rural identity and past.
“In this exhibition Legatt creates artworks that attempt a reconciliation of memory and inherited ideas. She creates deeply affecting images that meditate on memory, identity, and human fragility. Through an experimental process that embraces deterioration and instability, artworks emerge with a lightness of touch that is both intentional and poetic. Imagery, imagination, light, and materiality converge to form objects that are symbolic, fragile, and visually compelling—works that resist permanence even as they invite sustained reflection.” – Dr Megan Arney Johnston
Legatt’s current practice examines the cultural and historical complexities of rural Minnesota, a landscape shaped by layered histories of settlement, ownership, and erasure. Working with alternative materials and innovative photographic and installation processes, she presents a series of images of rural life in states of continual transformation. Through material experimentation and image degradation, the work proposes a reimagining of the land and asks essential questions: Whose land is this? Whose land was it originally? How do we confront the contested narratives embedded in rural spaces and the evolution of land ownership over time? Here, memory functions as an unreliable archive—shifting, fading, and incomplete.
A PDF publication with an essay by the curator of the exhibition Dr. Megan Arney Johnston will be published as part of the exhibition. PDF available upon request.
How to Attend
The exhibit is free to the public and runs from January 16 until February 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. An Opening Reception will be held from 5 p.m.-7 p.m., Thursday, January 15, with an Artist’s Talk at 6 p.m.
About Su Legatt
Creative research explores personal associations with object and/or place, how these relationships are formed, and why they might fade. Investigating the world of memory, architypes, and social constructs, Legatt explores the ever-changing structures of community and culture. Starting with her own learned history, she combines her background in experimental photography with community engagement techniques to develop exchanges that focus on empathy and education. Starting with the individual experience or conflicting curated histories, Legatt creates opportunities for exchange and artifacts for dissemination to authentically capture the evolving complexity of a Minnesota’s collective Superior College and taught workshops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Parsons New School, the International Center for Photography, and many other locations throughout the country.
Legatt is the recipient of the Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Individual Artist Grant from the Lake Region Arts Council, and has worked as creative lead on projects for the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtPlace America, Bush Foundation, Environmental Initiative, and more.
Today, Legatt works as Program Officer for the Central MN Arts board and dedicates her free time to her own creative practice. She currently lives in Big Lake, MN with her husband Kris, their son Alex, and their exchange student Bohdan.