i'm trying to rewrite what happened before

2025

Textile

in collaboration with Sara Gurevich

Site-specific installation at 400 Liberty St courtesy of Wendy W. Smith as part of Newburgh Terrain Biennial Exhibition

Sept 23 2025-Nov 25 2025

i'm trying to rewrite what happened before is a meditation on undoing, the passage of time, and the fine edge between meaning and non-meaning.

Over the course of Terrain Biennial 2025, the words on this quilt, one by one, were undone, leaving new sentences, and perhaps meanings, or non-meanings, to be experienced by passersby.

The quilt, comprised of found, upcycled materials built to weather the elements, is stitched in a nine-patch pattern of mostly blue hues. The nine-patch pattern was used primarily during the early 19th century as a utility quilt, and eventually became known for being "lower class."

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Sara Gurevich (she/her) is a Newburgh-based artist working in multiple mediums. Her performance work has been presented by Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place, Newburgh Open Studios, and many others. She currently performs with Raja Feather Kelly's the feath3r theory. She has previously collaborated with Bam Bowen to create site-specific, interactive installations. Gurevich is also a psychoanalyst in private practice.