“Somatic Echoes” Fine Art Exhibition

Somatic Echoes brings together the work of Jocelyn Fournier and Chuck Little, two artists exploring the complex relationship between the physical form and the internal self. Through a shared language of vibrant abstraction and intense layering, their work attempts to explore the gap between the person we see in the mirror today and the long history we carry inside us.

Fournier’s paintings strive to serve as an intuitive record of their struggle for autonomy. Through a process of scraping, scratching, and dripping, they aim to translate the experience of body dysmorphia into a physical act of mark-making. These works seek to capture an intense detachment of identity from appearance; by distorting the "reflected self," Fournier sets out to navigate the "layers of filth" that define a lived experience, ultimately aspiring to transform the tension of alienation into a resilient, expressive reclamation of space.

In dialogue with these fractured surfaces are Little’s "living fossils.” These soft sculptural forms intend to function as microscopic maps of personal and collective history. Constructed from needle-felted foam and embedded with vintage jewelry, these objects propose the idea that everything we encounter is a specimen of a prior life. Where Fournier’s work aims to address the immediate friction of being seen, Little’s work seeks to look toward the cellular, approaching the body as an organism that might carry its history in its very skin. The thrifted beads and gems are meant to act as "fossilized memories," suggesting that even in our most ambiguous forms, we are composed of the things we have gathered along the way.

Together, Somatic Echoes invites the viewer into a space of prolonged observation. It serves as an invitation to look past the surface - whether through the expressive toolmarks of a distorted portrait or the intricate textures of a felted cell - to seek out the resilience essential in the act of existing.

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