Slipstream
2024 — Exhibition archiveSlipstream was a 2024 installation at Carnation Contemporary, combining a curtain of falling water, handbuilt ceramics, a dining table and a series of shared dinners.
Creation is a continuous process both internal and shared.
It exists as a series of instances, exchanges, and perceptions.
Sometimes it exists in private,
but it’s often uncovered in the place where we meet each other.
Slipstream functioned as an interdisciplinary installation that merged immersive art, ceramics, and participatory experience. While open for conventional gallery viewings, the exhibition was also activated through a series of public Friday evening dinners, transforming the gallery into a site of collective encounter and reflection.
At the center of the installation, a 62 foot curtain of rain descended from ceiling, enveloping visitors in a continuous cascade of water. Through the orchestration of light, sound, and movement, the work constructed an environment that prompted contemplation on memory, temporality, and shared connection. A handbuilt dining table, fabricated by the artist, occupied the center of the space and served as a gathering point for thematic dinners held throughout the exhibition.
Surrounding the installation were handbuilt ceramic vessels—each produced daily over the course of a year—alongside mementos, writings, and personal correspondences accumulated during that same period. Together, these elements traced the rhythms of making and living, situating the work within both a material and temporal continuum.
(Read the 2024 dinner archive)
Through Slipstream, Connelly examined the conditions under which place and experience become embedded in memory. The work proposed that meaning in life arises from the subtle intersections of routine, intimacy, and sensory awareness. By intertwining the domestic and the elemental, Slipstream invited viewers to consider how shared environments hold and reflect the ephemeral traces of collective life.
