From Where the Current Slows: Eden Amber Imrie

From Where the Current Slows weaves together queer identity, rural inheritance, and elemental transformation through photographic textiles, poetic objects, and sculptural installations. Rooted in the Ozark karst landscape, the work moves like water carving stone—slowly layering image, memory, and material to trace where grief and desire pool in hidden valleys, and where rituals emerge from erosion. Bringing the rural South into focus as both refuge and refusal, the exhibition traces how desire, lineage, and harm remain suspended in the hollows between presence and absence. In this ecosystem, slowness is not a lack, but a queer technology: a way of rerouting time, thickening attention, and making space for lives and stories that were never meant to rush toward certainty.