Impossible Souls

Experience the ineffable in Impossible Souls. Connections surface between people, time, and place. Through the serendipity of  缘分 (yuan fen, “fateful coincidence”) artists Steffen Pollock and Xiao Ma evoke the heart of Sufjan Stevens’ Impossible Soul as a primary ground to call out multiplicities of shared experience, stories of memory and loss, and explore place and home as a way to access entanglement.

The exhibition Impossible Souls explores art as a distillation of artists’ relationships that uses visual language as a way to convene over shared humanity and bridge divides. The exhibition features a diverse range of art forms including drawings on paper, ceramics, photographic prints, poetry, and installation.

Steffen Pollock grew up between Baltimore Maryland and Tianjin China. He is an interdisciplinary artist and resides in Connecticut as far as the IRS are concerned. Sharing a room with a Ficus plant, Steffen Pollock is sometimes not in Connecticut, during which periods the Ficus has the room to itself.

Xiao Ma, from Suzhou, China, is a recent graduate in Visual Arts and Literature from Bennington College, explores the theme of love through her narrative and photographic art. Her work captures the intricacies of human emotions, interactions, and societal dynamics, inviting viewers to contemplate the universal language of love that binds us all.

Impossible Souls is produced by Gabriel Sacco in conjunction with Artspace New Haven and Creative Arts Workshop Hilles Gallery.

Impossible Souls is on view at Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St. New Haven CT 06510

Image Credit: Steffen Pollock