Back and Forth: The Space in Between is an exhibition project featuring drawing, print, installation, and sound work that expands and complicates notions of the past as material to evoke questions around memory, history, and belonging.
Central to this project are the two collections of drawings featured in this book. One is my own series of charcoal drawings (2015 to the present) that respond to myriad experiences, instances, phenomena, events, and sites encountered during my travels between Philadelphia and Bitola, the United States, and Macedonia. The other is a group of 235 lost drawings by the artist-tailor Marko Cepenkov who lived from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century in what was then known as the Ottoman Empire.
Initiated in 2018, this exhibition project is presented at The Print Center in Philadelphia in the fall of 2021.
