What’s Happening

“Connected through slow repetition and relation to the land, each act suggests a patient and rhythmic sort of seeking.”

By Mielen Remmert

Border Crossings, February 2024

Notions of ploughing, wayfaring and mudlarking are central to Critical Fictions (ARP Books, Winnipeg, 2023), the new book by artist, writer and curator Hannah Godfrey. Connected through slow repetition and relation to the land, each act suggests a patient and rhythmic sort of seeking. To meander and trace the steps of another, to slowly and painstakingly turn the soil and sift through the time-worn foreshore of a riverbank are all processes that both recover meaning and make it anew. 

[Read the Review at Border Crossings]