Timnah Rosenshine

“My work is engaged with religious questions of the validity of the divide between the sacred and the profane. In the world of my work, the Sacred is defined as ecstatic. It is disembodied and untranslatable, and cannot be bought and sold. It is everything that everyone yearns for, even when they think they yearn for the Profane. Whereas the Profane is the knowable, the tangible, the commercial, and the material. It is the stinky and the fleshy, in the body and around the body. Setting these as the boundaries of my work, I engage in process-based rituals in order to undo these definitions and slowly unscrew the Sacred from it’s ceiling, and lift the Profane up from under the musty carpet.”

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