Knowing Knowing (2024-ongoing)

Knowing Knowing explores the different ways to gather knowledge to navigate personal and communal truths. Large-scale conceptual paintings span the perimeter of the space, depicting seven unique categories of knowing.

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The paintings, which evolve after each showing, depict seven different categories of knowing. Influenced by on-going interviews and input, each piece emblematizes community responses to the questions “How do you know what you know?", "What does it feel like to know?”, “What do you do to know?”. Hundreds of participants have responded to these questions, reflecting on a perpetual process of reconciling personal, communal, and universal understanding.

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The project's duplicative title emphasizes a duality of knowing, investigating its process and exploring it conclusions.  By disrupting traditional aesthetics through unconventional materials, humor, and visual tension, the project welcomed curiosity and allowed audiences to engage with discomfort and dissonance in an accessible way.

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With a background in painting, documentary film, and social justice work, Guenther uses her multidisciplinary approach to examine sociological reflections on epistemology. This work offers a “sense-making sanctuary” amidst algorithms and misinformation that dominate our current times. During an era of "unprecedented" social and political shifts, fraught with divisiveness and distractions, Guenther's participatory community-focused exhibition pierces into chaos with tender curiosity - disinterested in resolution or certainty but infatuated with building capacity for discourse and authenticity.​