“The Ghosts of Coleridge” Exhibition
The Tunnel
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At the turn of the 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth co-published a book of poems in which they sought to examine the everyday and the overlooked. Coleridge’s contributions were directed towards the extraordinary and supernatural, yet with a “semblance of truth sufficient to procure…the willing suspension of disbelief,” while Wordsworth tried to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by “awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom.” It is this dual approach to exploring ‘the real’ that inspired “The Ghosts of Coleridge,” a group exhibition organized by the 2009 Masters Degree candidates in FIT’s Art Market: Principles and Practices program. Artists in the exhibition invite viewers to ponder the seemingly irreconcilable; to look at our belief in the incredible, disbelief of the everyday, and the shifting area in between. Through them, we see that the extraordinary is often right before our eyes.
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Schedule
from May 07, 2009 to May 27, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-05-07 from 18:00 to 20:00