Agatha Gothe-Snape and Wrong Solo Certain Situations

Agatha Gothe-Snape’s solo exhibition, “Certain Situations,” brought together a mix of painting and sculpture, projections and screen-based works, soundscapes and texts. The forms and words alike indicated an openness to inspiration, with allusions to the aesthetics of modernist abstraction and the poetics of everyday language, snipped and recombined to produce a display that was crisp, sparse, and familiar.

At the heart of the exhibition, (2019), a collaborative project by Wrong Solo—Gothe-Snape’s ongoing collaboration with performance artist Brian Fuata—with Sonya Holowell, Ruark Lewis, Sarah Rodigari, Brooke Stamp, and Lizzie Thomson. The five screens played ten-minute recordings of the artists dramatically humming, performing choreographed movements, chatting, and reading aloud literary excerpts. was cacophonous, its crooked hang and indecipherable performances jarring with the other, visually restrained works on view. Its audio spilled into the other galleries, producing an infusion of sound that spoke to the reality of creative practice: no artist exists in a vacuum.