Candice Smith Corby and William Pettit’s collaborative exhibition: Sou-ven-ir: A Collaborative Longing. This exhibition features excerpts from a larger installation featured at The New Bedford Whaling Museum reflecting the ebb and flow of whaling life, in their time and across time. From the artists’ personal experience of traveling back and forth, of missing one another, and being together, they well understand the power of objects to substitute and embody an absent love is extremely significant. A simple shell can recall a person, a voyage, act as an effigy, a talisman, or a souvenir. Between geography and sentiment, exploration and settlement, there is the space of longing, a dream of the future and a nostalgia for the past, in this impossibly possible present.
Candice Smith Corby and William Pettit: Souvenir
