Joshua Lee Lennon

In POSTCARDS: 36 FEB 3026 Lennon challenges viewers to contemplate their own existence in the context of time and space. Visitors are invited to purchase one or more of 100 unique postcards and to send these by post to themselves or somebody else. This reflects Lennon's role as both artist and a social practitioner-instigating dialogue and human exchange through the physical envoy of material memory and emotion.

The collaged works are made from clippings, conveying the timeless allure of vintage postcards and magazines taken from both Greek and American magazines from the 30s through the 70s. The design elements and themes in the ads and articles of these magazines bear the influence of both post-war American idealism, blending the fictional narrative cues of advertising design with the reality of human existence. The visual cues from these nostalgic clippings direct the viewer to a temporal space that can be both precious and profound, or insufferably light and commercial.

What is most essential to this body of work is the importance of art as something transformative, that can travel through space and eventually touch others also. The artworks/postcards carry and transmit the hopes, dreams, failures and chagrin of human experience.

For Lennon, this exhibition represents a re-configuring of his own past as a filmmaker, writer, sculptor and athlete - defying temporal constraints, blending elements from the past, present, and future while creating the possibility for others to connect beyond the limitations and metrics of frontiers, borders and time.

Joshua Lee Lennon (b. 1998) grew up in Maine, USA and graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Ma.