Library Exhibits
We are always looking to showcase local talent! If you are a local artist interested in exhibiting your work, please contact us at (605) 718-3663. The library's Art Exhibit Policy is here.
January/February Display: Kali Voigt
Kali Voigt
I Love You with All My Heart, 2020
Mixed media collage series
This series of collages is based on the artist’s accumulation and assemblage of fragmented memories of three generations on her maternal side. A main subject the artist studies in these works is the duality of the generative cycles of motherhood and the degenerative effect of Alzheimer’s Disease on memories; how disease, mental illness, and trauma is inheritable and generational. As an influential part of the artist’s early interest and exploration of art, her granny holds a special place in her heart. Digging through collections of her granny’s photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, letters, and journals; the artist has reclaimed these forgotten memories. Emotional memory is stored in the amygdala part of the brain, which is responsible for the perception of emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness, as well as the controlling of aggression. The amygdala is severely affected in people with Alzheimer’s Disease, resulting in emotional memory loss, personality changes, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Research has shown that many aspects of memory, including emotional associations, are malleable; as to which psychiatry uses to heal trauma. The artist mends their own generational trauma through the malleability of collaging these documented memories, taping back together her own heart through inheriting the generational love that has trickled down into her life from grandmother to mother to daughter and learning to heal with forgiveness and unconditional love. Just as her granny ended every card, letter, and phone call; she extends the message generationally forward, “I Love You with All My Heart.”
Kali is currently based in Piedmont, South Dakota, the hometown of her granny who inspired this piece. She works with installation and mixed media as her primary mediums, often utilizing projection and recycled materials. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in Art in 2016. Her inspiration stems from family dynamics, self-reflection, and the recollection/reclaiming of old memories and objects.
I Love You with All My Heart, 2020
Mixed media collage series
This series of collages is based on the artist’s accumulation and assemblage of fragmented memories of three generations on her maternal side. A main subject the artist studies in these works is the duality of the generative cycles of motherhood and the degenerative effect of Alzheimer’s Disease on memories; how disease, mental illness, and trauma is inheritable and generational. As an influential part of the artist’s early interest and exploration of art, her granny holds a special place in her heart. Digging through collections of her granny’s photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, letters, and journals; the artist has reclaimed these forgotten memories. Emotional memory is stored in the amygdala part of the brain, which is responsible for the perception of emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness, as well as the controlling of aggression. The amygdala is severely affected in people with Alzheimer’s Disease, resulting in emotional memory loss, personality changes, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Research has shown that many aspects of memory, including emotional associations, are malleable; as to which psychiatry uses to heal trauma. The artist mends their own generational trauma through the malleability of collaging these documented memories, taping back together her own heart through inheriting the generational love that has trickled down into her life from grandmother to mother to daughter and learning to heal with forgiveness and unconditional love. Just as her granny ended every card, letter, and phone call; she extends the message generationally forward, “I Love You with All My Heart.”
Kali is currently based in Piedmont, South Dakota, the hometown of her granny who inspired this piece. She works with installation and mixed media as her primary mediums, often utilizing projection and recycled materials. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in Art in 2016. Her inspiration stems from family dynamics, self-reflection, and the recollection/reclaiming of old memories and objects.
