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SculptureCenter opens 'Searching the Sky for Rain ' |
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Eric Wesley, New Realistic Figures (Sleeping): Michel, 2009/2015, installation view, Searching the Sky for Rain, SculptureCenter, New York, 2019. Paint and plastic on stained maple pedestal. Figure: 3.5 x 8.75 x 18 inches (8.9 x 22.2 x 45.7 cm); Pedestal: 56 x 11.5 x 11.5 inches (142.2 x 29.2 x 29.2 cm). Courtesy the artist and Bortolami, New York. Photo: Kyle Knodell.
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LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- This exhibition brings together works by artists who disregard the ways in which the art industry regulates, classifies, compartmentalizes, and essentializes difference into sanctioned categories. The artists in Searching the Sky for Rain defy the fracking of particularities into niche-marketed, T-shirt formulations of identities for institutional meaning and value production. These exploitative processes administer domination, forcing heterogeneity into operational packages for the stylization of a lukewarm cosmopolitanism.
The resulting rhetorical conflation of the maker and the work has led some producers to contend for the most bona fide representation in a highly competitive field where authenticity is rewarded as the primary source of value. While the proclaimed dominant position enjoys a hotline to abstract and structural thinking, others are often accorded only bare biography or story-time feels in the critical consideration and institutional presentation of their work. The question raised by Searching the Sky for Rain is: who has the right to abstraction? This question is neither a theme nor is necessarily the main concern of the included works, but it is at times one of their many components, or is indicative of a discursive ambivalence toward the worn-out framing devices that are formulated by the industry.
Against the backdrop of todays hyper-expressionism, which in the absence of reflexivity poses the self as a coordinate with direct access to truth, the works in this exhibition advance the subjects inherent non-sovereignty and unlocatability. As a character in Becket MWNs audio work Paranoid House puts it, anytime individuality is institutionally mandated it becomes a performance.
Using various methodologies and strategies, the artists in the exhibition resist prescribing or following readily available image templates, relinquishing the pop-up politics of instant visibility. In Tony Cokes video Evil.27.Selma , we read how the pre-television civil rights movement prompted a social collectivity heavily dependent on the imagination that created abundance of fantasy what-if scenarios. The artists in Searching the Sky for Rain rally for such not-yet-articulated aesthetics. The exhibition is curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, Curator, with Kyle Dancewicz, Director of Exhibitions and Programs.
The exhibition includes work by: Carmen Argote, Tony Cokes, Rafael Domenech, Mandy El-Sayegh, Charles Gaines, ektor garcia, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon, Tishan Hsu, Rindon Johnson, Becket MWN, Shahryar Nashat, Michael Queenland, Johanna Unzueta, Jala Wahid, Eric Wesley, and Riet Wijnen.
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