About Jenny Hersh
Jenny Hersh is an artist and educator currently based in New England.
Over the course of the past nine years she have not lived in one place for longer than nine months. This perpetual movement has created amorphous and overlapping timelines with rare moments of pause. Her work explores the relationship between memory and impermanence; the way transience informs the need for grounding, the impulse towards storytelling and the quality of our reconstructions when we have forgotten yet seek to remember.
From her many moves comes her source imagery; thousands of photos taken every year, within communities, in different homes, in landscapes both new and old. These photos serve as artifacts, traces, and threads of continuity spanning nearly a decade. With them she create prints and sculptures that are altars to memory, preserving and honoring years of patterns, characters and places. Her work also interrogates the value of accuracy in memory, as she often fuses dissonant images to create new stories and fresh reverberations across time.
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