NYAB Event - "What is Left" Exhibition

"What is Left" Exhibition

Winkleman Gallery

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Taking advantage of CRLab’s experimental mandate, What is left takes a two-fold approach. While it is a thematic exhibition, it is presented through a metamorphosing curatorial lens that unfolds over time. Works by Nina Lola Bachhuber, Elissa Levy and Nick Herman will be individually introduced, swapped out and/or rearranged, resulting in a variety of improvised juxtapositions. Adding a layer of temporality to the curatorial and viewing process, What is left hopes to challenge some of the preconceptions about the experience of viewing art in a gallery.

Thematically, What is left considers the human figure, but neither the classical figure nor some reaction against it, grotesque, abject or otherwise. Instead it ponders some of the most enduring ideas that swirl around and define the body -- constructions of power, myth and desire; beauty and vanity; even existential states of mind. The exhibition is less a meditation on the corporeal than an attempt to grasp “what is left” by the body’s physical absence.

Methodologically, What is left investigates the curatorial process as a collection of varying creative and theoretical possibilities. On a given day, a particular discourse may be initiated between two or three works. On another day, an installation of different works altogether might be on view. Such ongoing curatorial decisions and gestures drive this exhibition, which seeks to explore how the shifting organization of works inform the dialogue between the works themselves and viewer’s expectations.

The residue of the show’s varied installations -- nails, holes in the wall, cleats, hooks, spatial gaps -- will remain visible during the course of the exhibition, serving as evidence, clue or perhaps even aura that inform one’s understanding and interpretation of the show’s underlying theme. If a gallery is a vessel in which one’s own body relates in time and space to works of art, What is left explores how this relationship might change within the confines of a single thematic premise, using a specific selection of work. While What is left does not intend to challenge the exhibition’s basic premise, the inclusion of works and the arrangement of the installation will be altered, allowing for multiple permutations.

Media

• Painting
• Other
• Sculpture

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