HP Galleries is excited to announce the line-up for the 2025 “Serva Pool Flux” exhibition series. Serva Pool Flux, or SPF, was designed as an opportunity for artists and curators to exhibit in a pop-up style format in the Holland Project’s Serva Pool space. An open call for applications was announced in early 2025, and a committee of local artists and cultural workers selected proposals that aimed to exhibit brand-new work. The inaugural SPF exhibition will be on May 23rd, with pop-ups happening through September.
#01 Copper Ouroboros by Christopher Lynn
In the inaugural HPG Serva Pool Flux exhibition, Ohio-based artist Christopher Lynn reflects on themes of labor and a troubling legacy of mining and capitalism. The exhibition, which includes video, sculpture, painting, and sound, “Copper Ouroboros”, will be on view for one night and one day, with an opening in conjunction with the reception for “inauditx (unheard)” in the HP Gallery on Friday, May 23rd from 7-10:30 pm. Additional hours include 10 am-3 pm on Saturday, May 24th, during the Mini•Mart Artist Market.
The Ringing Rocks, located in Butte, Montana, “sing” when struck with hammers. This lithophonic phenomenon is only found in a few spots on the planet, and the artist Christopher Lynn made the journey to Butte in 2023 to witness and record it. Those recordings found a home when Lynn learned of “New Songs for Butte Mining Camp,” a songbook for protesting miners published in 1917 when a clash between companies and workers came to a head. In his video works, Lynn depicts the rocks and nearby landscape, and overlays those images with sheets from the little, yellow songbook that gave miners a single voice as they marched. Videos also show vignettes of Butte history around mining, union organizing, Evel Knievel, corporate assassinations, and the death of snow geese in the Berkeley Pit – a defunct mining pit near the Rocks that has killed thousands of birds through its tainted waters. A motion-activated sound installation also plays the protest songs mixed with samples from the Rocks – as if the earth sings for the miners long buried, warding off any capitalists. Paintings made of sulfuric acid and copper oxide reference the heavy metals and mining byproducts present in the Pit, and the project continues to evolve and grow through sound and performance.
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