"Practice vs. Object" Exhibition

Miguel Abreu Gallery

poster for "Practice vs. Object" Exhibition

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“But I am saying that we should look not for the components of a product but for the conditions of a practice. When we find ourselves looking at a particular work, or group of works, often realizing, as we do so, their essential community as well as their irreducible individuality, we should find ourselves attending first to the reality of their practice and the conditions of the practice as it was then executed. And from this I think we ask essentially different questions.” — Raymond Williams

Prior to this passage from Problems in Materialism and Culture, Raymond Williams traces a line through early 20th-century art criticism that focuses on the ‘consumption’ of art and then the development of ‘taste’ for the art object. Williams attempts to restructure our engagement with “isolated artifacts” by reconsidering them as precipitates of wider artistic practices, much in the same way we would consider musical notations by a particular composer or various writings by a particular author. Put another way, he asks us to consider an object within the context of a wider body of activities. While the dissemination of graphic documentation and written description may aid in the task of presenting a visual artist’s practice, this show attempts to shape this effort within the frame of an exhibition.

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from March 05, 2009 to April 19, 2009
Screening date: Sunday, April 19, 7pm

Opening Reception on 2009-03-05 from 18:30 to 21:00

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