Before I Let Go

Also on view in The Skirt: KT Duffy "The Ways We Record the Universe Are Evidence of Our Own Primitive Nature" Before I Let Go includes new video, sculpture, and text based works from Cameron Granger, creating an immersive installation within the gallery. The show is dedicated to the wonderful gift of being seen by someone we love, and the life that gift can bring. A two-channel film plays as a stream of consciousness and alludes to how U.S. History and its media have played an influential role in Granger’s upbringing. The works provide an existential and voyeuristic lens into the soul music and figures that played an influential part in Granger’s practice. “In 1995 Antwan Patton & André Benjamin—Outkast, outcasts—stood against the world. Because at that time, you see, all eyes were either to the East or the West, but these kids were from the South, so believe me when I say that when those two kids from the South were named best new artists at the ‘95 Source Awards, the room tore itself apart at its very seams. If you watch the footage today you’ll probably hear the booing first. Massive, as if it could push on through whatever screen you were watching it on. If you stay longer though, you’ll see the two artists, making their way through the crowd and to the stage where, standing tall, unshaken, and side by side, André would assure us all that—no—where André would declare that: 'The south got something to say.' I guess i’m thinking of Antwan, standing alongside his nigga, eyes trained forward, ready to defend him against whatever may come from that moment on. I guess i’m thinking of my own niggas, with their eyes trained forward past me, ready to do the same." - Cameron Granger Cameron Granger came up in Cleveland, Ohio alongside his mother, Sandra, inheriting both a love of soul music, and a certain way of apologizing too much. A 2017 resident of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, his work explores his place in, and role as a product of American history and its media. His most recent projects include Ten Toes Down at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Pearl a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland, and A Library, For You a traveling community library.