Join Katarina Weslien and Jessica May as they discuss Weslien's solo exhibition, "What did you smell when you were away?"

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The exhibition brings together three long-term projects that instantiate Weslien's abiding interest in symbolic systems of meaning-making within and beyond spiritual traditions. The organizing elements of the three projects on view include interaction with water—specifically the Ganges River in India and its sources, mountain lakes in Tibet—rendered through deliberate and radical shifts of attention to overlooked or invisible dimensions of materiality.

Katarina Weslien is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. Her work takes form in cross-media installations, collaborative efforts, textile constructions, and print media. She builds her projects through layers of research with a particular interest in how images and objects elicit thoughts, emotions, and embodied knowledge. By investigating the possibilities of how different confluences of materials, people, events, and the environment reflect our interdependence, her work serves to reveal how meaning is embedded and exposed within the context of shifting sets of circumstances.

Jessica May is the recently named Managing Director for Art and Exhibitions at the Trustees, a Boston-based land conservancy that cares for 120 properties throughout Massachusetts, and Artistic Director of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Previously, May served as Deputy Director and Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic Chief Curator at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine. May is curator of the upcoming exhibition, Clifford Ross: Sightlines (PMA, 2021) and is the editor for the 2021 book, David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History (PMA and High Museum of Art, Atlanta).