Group Show: What If We Lose the Ground
2024/02/08 - 2024/02/25
Artists: Janine Brown, Lisa Lee Freeman, Maria Markham, Melanie Brewster, Nayven Vignette, Shuai Yang,Youyi Echo Yan
Curator: Yuyue(Eunice) Chen
Imagine your body floating, falling, and swirling in mid-air; the lines of the horizon you see would break, twirl around, and superimpose. Traditional modes of seeing and feeling are shattered. As Hito Steyerl wrote in In Free Fall: Thought Experiments in Vertical Perspective,
"We cannot assume any stable ground on which to base metaphysical claims or foundational political myths. At best, we are faced with temporary, contingent, and partial attempts at grounding."
What If We Lose the Ground presents a new approach to understanding the body's navigation, expanding the perception of spatial and experiential dimensions. By positioning the body as a reference point, the artists construct a coordinate system that mediates material and spiritual realms. Through techniques such as kitchen witchcraft, mapmaking, and digital visualization, the featured artworks explore the reflections of visuality and domesticated space, female body and mythical images, as well as legacy and digital technologies. The exhibition is not only about the transformation of physical form but encompasses the full spectrum of life's uncertainties, from cosmological phenomena to social dynamics.
Curator: Yuyue(Eunice) Chen
Imagine your body floating, falling, and swirling in mid-air; the lines of the horizon you see would break, twirl around, and superimpose. Traditional modes of seeing and feeling are shattered. As Hito Steyerl wrote in In Free Fall: Thought Experiments in Vertical Perspective,
"We cannot assume any stable ground on which to base metaphysical claims or foundational political myths. At best, we are faced with temporary, contingent, and partial attempts at grounding."
What If We Lose the Ground presents a new approach to understanding the body's navigation, expanding the perception of spatial and experiential dimensions. By positioning the body as a reference point, the artists construct a coordinate system that mediates material and spiritual realms. Through techniques such as kitchen witchcraft, mapmaking, and digital visualization, the featured artworks explore the reflections of visuality and domesticated space, female body and mythical images, as well as legacy and digital technologies. The exhibition is not only about the transformation of physical form but encompasses the full spectrum of life's uncertainties, from cosmological phenomena to social dynamics.
