Twilight Wires is part of a collaborative, solo project series called Working Spaces. These photographs were exhibited as a site-specific installation. The exhibition was curated by Chaska Jurado and Sasha Louis Bush. It was on view in July, 2022 in Chaska Jurado’s studio in Brooklyn, NY.
A limited edition zine was published to coincide with the show.
Original zine text written by Sasha Louis Bush
I notice the answers not given in Christine Callahan’s solo exhibition Twilight Wires. I’m drawn to her photographs for the many questions they hold – do photographs have sounds? What does cold snow smell like? And what time of day is ruby red?
And afterwards, I notice the quiet. Christine’s color pallet is precise and razor sharp, a mix of luscious blues, purples, and greens. We often associate these colors with a booming, sonic energy and yet Christine’s photographs lead you away from this energy, towards new paths full of surprises.
Look closely and you will find many delightful contrasts. Observe the subtle and unmistakable rippling of crackling energy that hums and buzzes as tranquility and restlessness collide together in each composition.
In one representative photograph a TV sits in a darkened living room, a common enough occurrence. And yet, the room is cast in shadow, lit only by the orange and green glow of Christmas lights framing the windows. And on the TV’s screen, a cobalt sky full of clouds, cut in half by the scorching white streak of lightning.
When looking at a projected image on a digital screen. Of course, I tell myself, it is impossible to see a storm appear within the walls of a living room. Still, as with all of the pictures in Twilight Wires, this photograph invites the viewer to suspend disbelief and enjoy the vivid juxtaposition of greens, oranges and blues, that together offer the distinctly strange and wonderful possibility of a rainstorm dropping onto a carpeted floor.
