LUPA CAPITOLINA

Lupa Capitolina is an on-going collaboration between by Faith La Rocque and Jaimie Henthorn  based on the Roman foundation-myth, with outcomes including photographs, video, and pencil drawings. 

Lending historical weight to an image with multiple contemporary cues creates a point of tension, legitimizing a scene that could otherwise be bizarre or even disturbing. In opposition to the sexualized she-wolves of popular culture, Lupa Capitolina represents a legendary moment of Nature; highlighting the maternal instinct that promulgated a civilization.

THE DIVERS

In April 2015 G Gallery hosted art objects, installations, video works, and a continuous live performance by artists Faith La Rocque and Jaimie Henthorn. The Divers explores communication through artwork - first as collaboration tool, and subsequently as a form of investing and conveying meaning.

The artists' series of pencil drawings generated by the Dadaist methodology of “exquisite corpse” exchanged via post yielded an unexpected depth, unachievable with the extensive verbal planning that usually scaffolds collaborations. The drawings have been exhibited at Denver’s Groundswell Gallery (2013) and at De Luca Fine Art in Toronto (2014).

In The Divers, La Rocque and Henthorn apply this anachronistic methodology to the topic of transformation, desired or otherwise. These potential transformations may be gradual or sudden, generated by force or passivity. 

MASSAGE PORTAL

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ROCKING BATH

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EXQUISITE CORPSE

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