IMPROBABLE EXCESS

SOLO EXHIBITION BY JESSICA TUCKER

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April 11 – April 28, 2025

Opening: Friday, April 11 at 6:00 pm

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Improbable Excess, a solo exhibition by resident Jessica Tucker, encompasses new print and video renderings of unhinged bodies—tangled, shapeshifting masses of faces that churn and refuse to settle. Simultaneously exposed and obscured, these hypermediated beings are vulnerable yet threatening in their ambivalent visibility. They cry out, laugh hysterically, fail to form, and cyclically consume themselves. 

 

An urgent impulse, a visceral yearning, compels us toward the ground—yet we are confronted by a crisis of faith, a profound doubt that suggests no ground may exist at all.
We extend ourselves through synthetic limbs and simulated senses, constantly turning back to grasp and scratch at ourselves, falling short time and time again. The body perpetually exceeds its own boundaries, an ongoing mystery that defies our attempts to possess or comprehend it. Truth emerges as a trickster lurking within every image, every reflection, every gesture. Our own faces elude us, and we encounter but a ghostly cunning smile assuring us of our fundamental limitlessness and myopia.

Improbable Excess illuminates how our bodies and identities are relentlessly pursued, parsed, and reconstructed by invisible algorithmic gazes that mirror and cajole our own amplified desires for certainty and control.