Cadence: Works by Vanessa Renwick was a solo exhibition curated by Adán De La Garza + Jenna Maurice for the inaugeral Denver Month of Video. The exhibition featured two video works (KESH and layover) by artist Vanessa Renwick.

KESH Statement- 

“Always Coming Home

A white dog with blue eyes, returning home when old.

A people at home in the left coast wilds as the animals they are. Some half human.

North Owl, half person, raised by a woman of the matriarchal Valley, fathered by a passing Condor warrior.She said to me, "I am here".

Little Bear Woman, Ursula. Leaping over and through, negative as positive, dreaming our flooded future's past.

Lullabies on wings soaring forward. Ravens slowly spinning, slicing, a dance suspended. To go is to return.”

-Vanessa Renwick

This video was made for the re-release on LP of the cassette of "Music and Poetry of the Kesh", a soundtrack that Todd Barton and Ursula K. Le Guin made to accompany her book "Always Coming Home"

layover Statement-

“A swan song for the factory age. Every autumn, a South America-bound colony of Vaux’s Swifts numbering in the tens of thousands enjoy a layover in a Portland, Oregon elementary school chimney. Sunset brings a vortex of swirling shapes, whose each tiny piece combines to form a hypnotic, ever-changing pattern; an equinoctial rhythm beats in every swoop of the organic overhead spiral. The defunct industrial chimney is our own demise, and yet the relentless, fluid choreography of the tiny migrants signals a new start, the turning wheel.”

- Vanessa Renwick

The exhibition was part of Denver Month of Video (.MOV), a month-long exhibition, event, and curatorial platform held citywide, showcasing a diverse array of video works, including video art, video games, performance art for video, and much more!

Visit Vanessa Renwick’s Website HERE

Visit .MOV Website HERE

Visit Adán De La Garza’s Website HERE

Visit Jenna Maurice’s Website HERE