Hot Pursuit (The Fabled Chase)
Hot Pursuit (The Fabled Chase) is an exhibition of video and digitally collaged prints on satin by The Powers (Jessica Mensch, Emily Pelstring & Katherine Kline). These works draw inspiration from The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries, created in the Netherlands between 1495 and 1500. In Hot Pursuit, we see the Virgin and Unicorn’s monstrous qualities restored. The Virgin and Unicorn are no longer symbols of purity, but rather, embodied figures that are campy, horny, and trashy. The underlying ethos of this new narrative is that “non-innocence” is an ethical necessity, as well as an ecological reality.
The Powers (Jessica Mensch, Emily Pelstring, Katherine Kline), Riding Free on the Wheels of Love, digital collage printed on satin, 2026, photo by Jessica Mensch, a unicorn and skeleton riding on a motorcycle through a forest in the evening
Gallery wall taken of the exhibition Hot Pursuit (The Fabled Chase), CBU Art Gallery, photo by Jessica Mensch
