NYAB Event - "The Emo Show" Exhibition

"The Emo Show" Exhibition

EFA Project Space

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Curated by: Jaishri Abichandani and curatorial team Derrick Adams, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Maymanah Farhat, Edwin Ramoran, Jasmine Wahi and Raúl Zamudio.

EFA Project Space announces "The Emo Show," a dynamic curatorial experiment involving seven NYC-based curators of color and twenty-six artists. The exhibition is conceived of and organized by artist and curator Jaishri Abichandani, who invited the participating curators to suspend their political and social biases and choose work solely based on its personal, emotional impact. Consequently, "The Emo Show" presents a diverse group of emotionally powerful works.

Abichandani borrows ancient Indian aesthetic codes for the organizational framework of the exhibition. Rasa Theory is an ancient Indian philosophy used to classify emotional states elicited by aesthetic experiences. Generally broken down into the following categories: Love, Valor, Grief, Humor, Wonder, Fear, Revulsion, Anger, Tranquility; works are created and presented utilizing a coded system where specific colors and symbols represent and evoke these particular feelings within the viewer.

Dividing the EFA Project Space gallery into sections of colors specific to the emotions they represent in the Rasa lexicon, "The Emo Show" promises to be not only emotionally resonant, but also to raise questions regarding traditional curatorial models that tend to ignore the more sentimental, visceral experiences of contemporary art.

[Image: Teresa Serrano "La Piñata" (2003) Still from a single channel color video with audio, 5:45 minutes.]

Media

• Painting
• Photography
• Video installation

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