In oscillating between granular and panoramic scales, Nicole Asares articulates a fascination with the rhythms that shape human life. The present series unfolds as cartographic compositions that accumulate miniature encounters into expansive social ecologies, distilled into the recurring pictorial nodes of people, plants, and space.
For Asares, patterns emerge through these interactions. Seemingly ordinary activities—walking, running, talking, for example—are in fact assemblages of our relations with the world, informed by actions, emotions, and memories that impress themselves upon one another. As bodies and objects become forever changed through contact, they are remade by the world even as they participate in remaking it. The intricate network of exchanges that results becomes both subject and method in Asares’s practice: a visual mapping of the countless encounters through which lives, places, and environments are mutually constituted.
Text by Chesca Santiago
