Gruppenausstellung SPINE

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Beschreibung

It’s time to let go / of this posture, this torque
Maggie Nelson, “Summer Song (or, The Rose)”

After looking into scabs as the site of expulsion of deep-seated irritation, we now indulge the itch and scratch at the surface.(1) Dogged in our digging, from muscle to tendon, we reach the bone. Our journey could end here. Instead, we meet those who continue to scratch, to scrape, to pick — doing so because there’s a complaint to be made, a quarrel to be had, a story to be told. Touching the core, arriving at the spine : this locus of interest focuses our attention to the labor of the so-called “nitpickers”. Should we lend an ear to their work, we might just catch the “crack” and “snap” of the calcified structures at which they take aim.
Here, we encounter five artists who, in a sense, take on the breaking of these worlds, erected and buttressed specifically for those with proverbial “backbone”. Each in their own way, these artists interrogate the politics that manage and inform physical architectures, as well as social choreographies that will us to “stand straight”, “keep it together”, and “soldier on”. This timely interruption of the reproduction of standard and status begs the question : what happens, indeed, when we “let go / of this posture”?

Beteiligte

Amy Bravo, Carina Emery, Alison Flora, Valentin Noujaïm, Berenice Olmedo Peña, Madeleine Planeix-Crocker (Kurator/in)