Opening in the Plane

Kamille Kirschling + Josephine Dorsey-Lauck

December 7, 2024 - January 11, 2025

Opening in the Plane brings together the practices of photography, weaving, and sculptural installation in an exploration of the dynamic interaction between interior and exterior spaces, capturing the rhythm of presence and absence. In the words of the artists: “Emerging from a desire to interrogate the ephemeral quality of existence through spatial experiences, this body of work investigates momentary compositions created within the home, inviting contemplation of how homes function as living, breathing sculptures that host our daily lives. The intimate relationship one cultivates with sunlight entering one's home becomes a personal and immersive experience. Yet, as these constructions transition from their private environments to the gallery, they transform into a broader sequence, recounting their origin in subverted and abstracted ways.” 

ARTIST BIOS

Kamille Kirschling (b. 2002) lives and works in Chicago, IL. They received their BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2024. Inspired by the bodily memory held within houses and domestic spaces, they work with photography, sculpture, and installation to interpret how memories are experienced through time. Due to the 2008 financial crisis, they experienced housing insecurity that resulted in frequent moving and ever-evolving family dynamics. This shaped their interest in the false promise of suburban housing developments and the ever-increasing lack of accessibility of home ownership within the United States. They are drawn to photography for its ability to distort a reality within one's perception and question the inherent idea of truth within the medium, of how it exists as a document of change.

Josephine Dorsey-Lauck is a textile artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Through weaving, sewing, and drawing, she creates textural compositions that evoke familiar, yet abstracted, scenes of everyday life. Her work emphasizes the hand—particularly in moments where the process of making reveals its failures. This focus on craft versus creation allows the work to exist in an ambiguous space, somewhere between cloth, garment, painting, and something else entirely. Josephine graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Fiber and Material studies.