"Dialects 1.2" Exhibition
BRAC @ Bronx Music Heritage Center
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DIALECTS 1.2 presents new, site-specific works by Ronny Quevedo (Bronx, NY) and Shelly Bahl (India) and is curated by BRAC's Gallery Director & Curator, José Ruiz. Both artists come together with ambitious projects that deconstruct ubiquitous scenarios and personas through the use of popular icons, imagery, and paraphernalia. One of Quevedo’s large-scale, print assemblages recreates a Bronx bodega, to scale, by delineating its vast contents and density through various printmaking techniques. Bahl's installation, International Woman of Mystery (2009), mines the life of an enigmatic character and pop-culture phenomenon whose cultural ambiguity allows her to move through international borders at high speed. Each project focuses on the different, ironic ways that culture is constantly attempted to be contained. Whether through international goods sold at the corner store, or through individuals that are forced to identify themselves within one culture, both artists explore the tenuous codes that objectify identity into various commodities.
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Schedule
from October 23, 2009 to December 05, 2009
Closing Reception on 2009-12-05 from 15:00 to 17:00