NYAB Event - "Blind Dates" Exhibition

"Blind Dates" Exhibition

Pratt Manhattan Gallery

This event has ended.

Tracing what remains of the peoples, places, and cultures that once constituted the vast Ottoman geography, “Blind Dates” instigates a series of interdisciplinary “match-made” encounters to mediate ruptured pasts and to consider their effect on life today. At the heart of the exhibition are research-based artistic collaborations that bring together practitioners from Armenia, Bosnia, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, and Turkey, with their transnational counterparts in Europe and the United States. These newly produced projects explore attachments to images, voices, and histories that collide with existing taxonomies of nation-states, art histories, and identities. On view is a cluster of sensibilities that nest at the verge of remembering and forgetting, truth and fiction, real and imaginary.

Participants include:
Silva Ajemian and Aslihan Demirtas
Karen Andreassian with Citizen Walker Sergey
Hrayr Anmahouni Eulmessekian with Professor Anahid Kassabian
Michael Blum and Damir Nikšic
Jean Marie Casbarian with Professor Nazan Maksudyan
Özge Ersoy with Taline Toutounjian
Linda Ganjian and Elif Uras
Aram Jibilian with Aaron Mattocks as Arshile Gorky’s ghost
Nina Katchadourian and Ahmet Ögüt
Karine Matsakian and Sona Abgarian
Stefanos Tsivopoulos with dancers Ursula Eagly, Carlos Fittante and Christopher Williams
Jalal Toufic with Professor Selim Kuru as translator
xurban_collective

Media

• Painting
• Photography
• Sculpture
• Installation
• Video installation

ADVERTISE ON NYAB