P.S. OR POSTSCRIPTUM: ARTIST TALK

“This exhibition, entitled P.S. or Postscriptum, features works by photographers Matthew Finley and Casey Joiner and takes its name from the postscript written at the end of a letter. Through their two photographic series, An Impossibly Normal Life and Housekeeping, artists Finley and Joiner are rewriting the memory, or manipulating and building on the moments ‘after.’ Within their bodies of work on view, Joiner and Finley explore the

making of a personal archive. Not only are they navigating and recounting a personal history, but they are also utilizing world- and narrative-building to explore both what once was and what may only have been. Casey Joiner’s series Housekeeping was created as a means to navigate the grief of her father. At the same time, the photographs act as brief memories--or glimpses and moments that contend with their relationship, and the person he was as well as the person she became through…