Coco Klockner

Is the incendiary power of the feminine a path to reveal our true selves, and light the way to a more equal society where care work is valued, the earth is defended, and relationships are based on mutual aid? This work draws on the story of Jane Eyre to tie a thread between trans-femininity and destructive wildfires in Southern California.

Serial scenes of similitude and difference are appended together like beads on a string. The artist stares into the mostly dark, quasi-modernist, light-punctuated abstractions that bracket subway platforms in New York; a children's choir sings Für Elise over a rotating merry go round in which horses are replaced by physicalized versions of kids' drawings; a series of drawings is triggered by a barking dog, alternating between figuration and abstraction, showing a discontinuous subject, blinking in and out of existence, intermittently obliterated and reconstituted by glyphs, trace marks, and asemic writing.