NYAB Event - "Get up off our Knees" Exhibition

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At Monya Rowe Gallery
Media: Painting

Monya Rowe presents a group exhibition titled Get up off our Knees. The exhibition includes paintings by Angela Dufresne, Vera Iliatova, Amy Longenecker-Brown and Caroline Walker.

This street used to be full, it used to make me smile
And now it seems that everyone is walking single file…
And nothing I could say
Could ever make them see the light
Now apathy is happy that
It won without a fight
- Think For a Minute! (1986), The Housemartins

With a tinge of irony, the theme of the exhibition celebrates the refusal to be conditioned at the level our culture ‘instructs’. Our media saturated environment celebrating the decline of insight, thought and perception encourages a ‘false happiness’ and fear of expression that inevitably forces individuals to withdraw. Rather than focusing on the perils of societal disconnect, the exhibition celebrates its’ nuances and grieves the deterioration of congregated individuality. As Montag fled in Fahrenheit 451 (1966, Francois Truffaut), the protagonist on view – or in some cases a suggested protagonist – retreats to a quiet existential ‘place’ of contemplation, embracing melancholies while gleefully recoiling. The gallery has intentionally selected four small works, one by each artist, to create an intimate, sublime experience that subversively meditates on how social conditioning has bred an acute self-awareness, and even fear.

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