Lascaux
Lascaux
Galen Gibson Cornell
Lascaux
78” x 60” x 6"
Found street-posters from New York City, Berlin, and Plovdiv, sliced and woven; thread, zipper, magnets
2024
Galen Gibson-Cornell’s Lascaux is a richly layered exploration of fragmentation and preservation, woven from found street posters sourced in New York City, Berlin, and Plovdiv. Amidst the dense interplay of color and texture, the faint figure of a woman emerges—her body nearly dissolved into the composition, while her face remains strikingly intact. Through his process of altering and weaving, Gibson-Cornell reconfigures the remnants of urban ephemera into a visual archaeology of the city, where images fade, resurface, and transform. Lascaux echoes the ancient impulse to leave marks on walls, preserving fleeting moments in a constantly shifting landscape.