Nashville artist Sophia Gordon-Stevens’ new video installation at Turnip Green Creative Reuse engages marginalized artists to put a spotlight on mental illness. It’s a funny, irreverent and insightful display that deconstructs stigma and creates conversation.
With Miller’s Grove Public Access, Gordon-Stevens recreates a 1990s suburban living room with white wicker furniture, loads of fake flowers and a console television complete with rabbit ears antenna and a VCR. Visitors can sit in a chair or on a small love seat while they enjoy a loop of videos presented as the programming on the exhibition’s titular television channel.