{"id":104177,"date":"2026-06-20T13:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=104177"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:22:03","slug":"eternal-return-cassandra-chalfant-at-bdac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/eternal-return-cassandra-chalfant-at-bdac\/","title":{"rendered":"Eternal Return: Cassandra Chalfant at BDAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bountiful
\nJune 26 \u2013 July 24<\/p>\n

In Eternal Return, Denver-based artist Cassandra Chalfant explores the relationship between memory, nostalgia, and imagined futures through a series of paintings and sculpture. Drawing on family photographs, childhood objects, and familiar domestic spaces alongside visions of abandoned malls, crumbling highways, and empty grocery stores, Chalfant blurs the boundaries between past and future, asking what is inevitable, what can be changed, and how memory shapes our understanding of both.<\/p>\n

The exhibition takes its title from the philosophical concept of eternal return\u2014the idea that events may repeat endlessly through time. Chalfant uses this framework to examine the cycles of personal memory and societal history, suggesting that nostalgia can both connect us to the past and distort it. At the center of the exhibition is a small clay sculpture of a button carved with the word “END,” symbolizing both the cyclical nature of existence and the tension between human agency and forces beyond our control.<\/p>\n

Through landscapes, domestic interiors, personal artifacts, and imagined futures, Eternal Return invites viewers to consider how revisiting the past shapes the way we envision what lies ahead.<\/p>\n

Bountiful Davis Art Center<\/a>
\n90 N. Main Street
\nBountiful, UT 84010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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