It is fashionable these days to put your pain on the table and dish it out to others in heaping helpings. “Soft Mirror” and “Rupture,” two exhibitions currently at Rule Gallery, serve up a feast.
The good news, though, is that she leaves us with satisfying endings — not happy endings; that never seems feasible in this world where we are all doomed to bleed. But she does suggest that there are ways to cope and these artists have found them. The scenes she captures — using an oversized camera — are a bit mysterious and and the details are murky. One seems to be a place on fire, another may be underwater. Who knows the context of these images or the stories behind them; it does not matter because they represent all of the visuals we consume, non-stop all day. Staring and trying to decipher the details is not the point.