there are bridges over rivers
solo show – Srisa gallery, florence, Italy.
fall 2023
SRISA Gallery presents a new series of work by artist and curator John Gross. Through a mixed-media, textile installation that embraces photographic distortion, “There are Bridges over Rivers” interrogates the idea of memory and unravels invisible imprints of lives both past and present.
This is an exhibit about wandering; About migrations and journeys; About beginnings and endings, and beginning again. It is about memories, and memories of lives inherited but never lived. But most of all, it is about walking and feeling the flows of the world – the progression of life, left behind in traces.
read the full statement in english and italian below.
the exhibit at the srisa gallery
florence, italy. september, 2025
idols, mendings
“souped” 35mm film, digitally printed onto cotton muslin, embroidery, additional elements inkjet on acetate.
idols, rituals
“souped” 35mm film, digitally printed onto cotton muslin, embroidery, additional elements inkjet on acetate.
a hundred hands, a hundred voices
“souped” 35mm film, digitally printed onto cotton muslin, embroidery, additional elements inkjet on acetate.
julian and our omama’s windows, zagreb
“souped” 35mm film, digitally printed onto cotton muslin, embroidery, additional elements inkjet on acetate.
for my great-grandmother, a memorial
“souped” 35mm film, digitally printed onto cotton muslin, embroidery, additional elements inkjet on acetate, letterpress on archival paper.
in the questura, numberless
“souped” 35mm film, digitally printed onto cotton muslin, embroidery, additional elements inkjet on acetate, letterpress on archival paper.
invisible traces, connected threads
“souped” 35mm film, digitally printed onto cotton muslin, embroidery, additional elements inkjet on acetate, collage on archival paper.
Artist statement
repetitions, mutations
digital distortions
