Marked: New Work by Shoshana Fink
July 17 – August 23, 2025
On View: July 17 through August 23 (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 12-6pm)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19, 2025, 4:00-7:00pm
Artist’s Talk: Sunday, August 3, 2025, 2:00-3:00pm
Form+Content Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Shoshana Fink in her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Marked is a multi-sensory, interactive installation exploring how we mark space and time as well as how space and time mark us. Using visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory mediums, this piece employs sculpture, photography, sound, touch, and scent, to build imprinted landscapes of time’s passage
Photography, which makes the past visible with light, has become a means of visualizing fragments of time. In this context, the photographic elements in, Marked, imagine time in various ways. As sunlight, moving across walls and corners, color and shadow streaming through windows, and clouds overhead changing in form and hue. As bodies, growing and aging. As personal archives, detailing multiple histories. Taken together, the photographs imagine an intermingling of past and present, much like time exists as a multiplicity in our consciousness.
The sculptural, olfactory, and sound elements in Marked revolve around the domestic. Domestic spaces are often witness to our most potent experiences. They also form a relationship with our bodies over time, bearing the wear and tear of our feet, our hands, our skin, and hair. As such, this work centers in and around the frame of a house, an architectural form the viewer can enter and exit. By design, the house is incomplete, like memory itself, consisting of experiences remembered and those forgotten. It is a temporary structure, mirroring our impermanence as physical beings. Objects, sounds, and scents punctuate the present with pieces of the past, reinforcing the relationship between form and content, space and the body. Over the course of the exhibition, the space is also marked by the viewer in real time. This is a collaboration between maker and viewer, continually imprinted and imprinting.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
SHOSHANA FINK is a Minneapolis-based artist and educator whose practice focuses on photography, sound, olfaction, and installation. For fifteen years, she worked as a Los Angeles-based film producer and director, returning to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2018. In 2022, Shoshana graduated with an M.F.A. in visual studies from MCAD. She has served as an Art Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin River Falls, as adjunct faculty in Media Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and as a teaching artist in residence at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain at the University of Minnesota. In 2021, she attended Mildred’s Lane residency program in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. In January of 2024, she was an artist in residence at the NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, where she exhibited her work as part of Light Up 2024. Currently, she is an art instructor at Artlet26 in St Paul, Minnesota, and a member of two diverse artist-run organizations: Fotomatter Collective, a group of Minnesota-based lens and book artists, as well as Form + Content Gallery.